Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages [LWN.net]

Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages

Posted Nov 20, 2009 4:11 UTC (Fri) by quaid (guest, #26101)
Parent article: Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages

There has been an update to this discussion:

I encourage you to read the whole email, it's not long and has good summary/explanation of the situation.

For the impatient ...

"Executive summary
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We'll make an update to the F12 PackageKit, so that the root password is required to install packages."

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