Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (883 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2012-05-22 18:43, Claudio Freire wrote:

> As sudo asks *your* password, those tools that handle wifi, printers 
> and such should also ask the user's password, and check whether the 
> user has permission to administer wifi, printers, and such.

Hummmm.

Actually, on most systems sudo asks root's password, because nobody
configures sudo; and many documentations tell novices to do "sudo
something" which will work because it is in the default, unconfigured state.

> Also, installing software from configured repos is not the same, 
> security-wise, to installing software from source or from untrusted 
> repos.

It is no so simple to differentiate. And even with software from the oss
repo you can break an installation, like forcing install sendmail when
postfix is already running well.

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)
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