Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:07:05 -0500
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:18:55AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:57:46AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > > Sven Arvidsson writes:
> > > > I'm not a Windows user myself, but I hear of many Windows users
> > > > who actually know that they shouldn't run as admin but are
> > > > forced to do so because a lot of applications, installers and
> > > > games simply will not run on an unprivileged account.
> > >
> > > Nothing forces them to run those applications. If they really
> > > cared about security they would refuse to buy such programs and
> > > the publishers would get the message.
> >
> > True, but quite often there is no choice. For example, at the local
> > primary school there is quite a lot of educational software which
> > comes under this umbrella. Although to be fair, I think it may be
> > the way the security features of the admin account are setup. The
> > average teacher is not aware of, or actually has time to learn
> > about, security with regards to installing purchased educational
> > software.
>
> I'd actually appreciate it if aptitude (or other such) would
> distinguish between packages whose use requires root permissions
> (whether by a setuid or not) and those that don't, and ask whether
> this is really intended.
And who checks that the so-called harmless package is what it says. The
non-root user doesn't know anything about md5sums, security, ...
Regards,
Andrei
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