On 11/12/09 18:46, jdd-gmane wrote:
Le 11/12/2009 07:56, Basil Chupin a écrit :
The question raised in the kubuntu forum also did not attract a response from those offering kubuntu to its audience. The security question there also remains unanswered - the same as here I have to say.
I don't really understand your concern.
As long as (some) user can install things as root, they can install malware. It's nearly impossible to have an heuristic detecting malware before they do they (bad) job.
Fact is AFAIK such malware are very qhickly detected and removed when they come and never spread the world (like shows the thread that was quoted here)
what do you want more?
jdd
Have you read and understood what was stated in that kubuntu forum posting? Have you understood what I am asking/questioning here? Novell/openSUSE has pushed out the development of oS unto "the community" - the "Build Service" - and any upgrades to the oS are installed with zypper or YaST which ask for root privileges before being implemented. As far as I am aware Novell/openSUSE have no way of checking the benevolence of what is produced in BS - except by user peer-review. And by the time the review is made the damage to some system is done -- but Linux keeps claiming, or at least not coming forward to dispel the impression, that users hold that Linux is not vulnerable to security breaches. The only mantra I keep hearing is that only someone with root access can do anything to a Linux system - but a while back, in this forum, there was a statement which stated that permissions can be altered even if they were within the user's home directory -- but this is where the discussion stopped because noone wanted to carry on with this topic any further. However, if I am wrong then I would dearly love to hear from some OFFICIAL in Novell/openSUSE - and not from - and I mean *no* offence here in any form or shape - someone called "jdd-gmane" who comes from "gmane.org" - whatever that may be. BC -- If you don't succeed you run the risk of failure. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org