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Re: More PATH fallout. Who decided this was a good idea?

From:  Steve Grubb <sgrubb-AT-redhat.com>
To:  fedora-devel-list-AT-redhat.com
Subject:  Re: More PATH fallout. Who decided this was a good idea?
Date:  Sat, 6 Dec 2008 07:48:00 -0500
Message-ID:  <200812060748.00510.sgrubb@redhat.com>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

On Saturday 06 December 2008 01:06:41 Seth Vidal wrote:
> And do we seriously think we can keep the code away from a non-root user
> by chmodd'ing the binaries? A user can get a binary for anything
> fedora can install in about 30s w/firefox.

Sure and that can be audited. We can also point out that this act takes the 
system out of the certified configuration. So, if you need to be in the CAPP 
certified configuration, don't let users do this.

-Steve

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