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Isn't this the case in Fedora 11 too?Isn't this the case in Fedora 11 too?Posted Nov 19, 2009 13:57 UTC (Thu) by stickster (guest, #40146)In reply to: Isn't this the case in Fedora 11 too? by rahulsundaram Parent article: Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages
I wonder how many people are only finding about this change now because (1) they are often squarely in the single-user ws/laptop case, and (2) in practice, they've taken advantage of the "remember this authorization" function and therefore expect no further prompts.
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Isn't this the case in Fedora 11 too? Posted Nov 19, 2009 18:12 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
People are only finding out about this change now because this 'feature' only kicks in for signed repositories, and rawhide wasn't signed because people were worried about the security implications of automatic signing.
Isn't this the case in Fedora 11 too? Posted Nov 19, 2009 18:25 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
That's a fair point and adequately explains why this was noticed now and not when it was introduced in the codebase.
-jef
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