/usr/local/ ?

/usr/local/ ?

Posted Apr 8, 2004 13:08 UTC (Thu) by horen (subscriber, #2514)
In reply to: /usr/local/ ? by alspnost
Parent article: The User-Accessible Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Yes - it strikes me that having a group-writeable /usr/local, and putting select users into an "install" group, is a more elegant solution. That way, the group/user distinction still allows people to install programs that are usable by only themselves, only the group, or everyone....

Yikes! This looks like a job for RBAC

Perhaps getting up-to-speed with SELinux is more mission-critical than many of us would care to admit; or, with the degree-of-complexity it possesses, perhaps creating the appropriate tools for administering it.

OTOH, I really do not want my desktop Linux users to be installing their own software packages. In the US Army, we had a saying: "The two most dangerous people are a Private with a rifle, and a 2LT with a pen." I'd like to add to that a PhD faculty member (w/ or w/o the root password).

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