Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation
Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation
Posted 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).
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).