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Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installationFedora 12 and unprivileged package installationPosted Dec 3, 2009 23:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation by simlo Parent article: Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation
Filesystem namespaces can be used for this, but allowing users to modify a
private copy of / has security implications: many many programs assume that things in /etc aren't modifiable except by privileged users (trivial example: /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow).
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