Le 11/12/2009 10:24, Basil Chupin a écrit :
Have you read and understood what was stated in that kubuntu forum posting? Have you understood what I am asking/questioning here?
I think so... but I may not
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.
to some extend, OBS passwds are no given to anybody, so there is a limited control 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.
that's not a security breach as users are used to understand in the W* world
The only mantra I keep hearing is that only someone with root access can do anything to a Linux system
sure :-) - 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
don't understand exactly what you mean here. The user rights depends of how the system is setup, there is a "paranoid" security setup (in fact it was, I didn't check this recently), that severely limit the users choices. It's often, for example, forgiven to run an app from a user account (that is an executable stored in the user account)
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.
the "gmane" is only to remember me I posted through the gmane forums. I'm an openSUSE member, working with openSUSE from the beginning, but with no other connection with openSUSE. I don't see neither why an openSUSE official (what does this exacltly mean?) and even less an Novell one would answer such question. of course, *all* open source world works on *trust*; Each time you install *any* application you can have a malware. No company can prove his programmers are immune from being terrorists :-(( but most of the time problem on Linux systems come from bugs not malware. The community as a hole is very picky about malware/viruses/trojan and any such malware attenpt is broadly discussed (as you do and you are right to do so) and so very quickly removed. Linux stories with important data lost for malware action are very rare (if any) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org