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sudo granularity

Posted Nov 21, 2009 13:09 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: sudo granularity by drag
Parent article: Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation

> How hard would you suppose it would be to get a shell out of something
> like that?

Trivial, FYI. Modify a config file of the one of the packages you are upgrading, and dpkg will ask you whether you want to see a diff, edit the file, or drop to a shell. :)

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