Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation
[Posted November 20, 2009 by jake]
Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation
[Front] Posted Nov 20, 2009 3:07 UTC (Fri) by jake
Fedora project leader Paul Frields has announced that the PackageKit policy that allowed non-root users to install packages will be changed.
"After more discussion and thought, though, the package maintainers
have posted to the fedora-devel-list mailing list agreeing to provide
an update to Fedora 12's PackageKit. The update will require local
console users to enter the root password to install new software
packages." The message from Owen Taylor gives a good overview of the issue.
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