Previously Havoc Pennington wrote: > Unless it's suid (not possible, it would open about 1000 security holes), > there's no way for it to change its uid to 0 anyway so if you start as > non-root there's no way to change that. Actually you could probably do something weird with capabilities in 2.1/2.2 kernels using a wrapper to do the authentication.. but I don't think we even want to try that. > It would be nice to be able to load and save the current state of the > package tree; then you could save the state as a regular user, and re-load > it as root. I'm not sure if we want that; for a multi-user system that would mean any user can change the state to something the administrator is not happy with. > > There is a problem where reformatting descriptions adds more > > processing overhead... but should be worth it, no? > > Nah, that's totally trivial processing, and it's only for one package > at a time. Reformatting has a *very* low complexity, you shouldn't notice that at all. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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