-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+73ooACgkQIvFNjefEBxqyawCeMZID9LeWi4M25xx4Xk7bnxeJ uBsAmgIabtWLzJtuYp6EzN6IkqsHxNUp =SJHn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org