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usermod as non-root userusermod as non-root userPosted Dec 11, 2008 16:24 UTC (Thu) by zuki (subscriber, #41808)In reply to: usermod as non-root user by wtogami Parent article: Fedora and CAPP
A more useful scenario: rpm.
Running rpm -i as a normal user checks the dependencies and then either bails out or fails because it cannot lock the database. So when installing an rpm, you can download it, test for deps, download them, test, ..., and then do sudo rpm -i ... when ready.
Removing this rpm functionality would be a much bigger PITA.
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usermod as non-root user Posted Dec 11, 2008 17:37 UTC (Thu) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325) [Link]
I do agree that this in particular would be stupid. Did anyone suggest that this happen? It didn't at this point.
usermod as non-root user Posted Dec 12, 2008 9:30 UTC (Fri) by zuki (subscriber, #41808) [Link]
Yeah, no one did yet. But the principle is the same - an unprivileged user calls a binary that can modify the system in a very important way.
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