Have you understood what I am asking/questioning here?
It is clear that you do not understand the issue and are trolling for a catastrophe.
Novell/openSUSE has pushed out the development of oS unto "the community" - the "Build Service" - and any upgrades to the oS are
INCORRECT! The Open Source openSUSE project "pushed out" the distribution.
installed with zypper or YaST which ask for root privileges before being implemented.
All of which are digitally signed by the packager - and do not include misc. crap from gnome-art.
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.
There is no other way to check "benevolence". And stop saying "Novell/openSUSE", it is "openSUSE".
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.
This issue does not demonstrate a security breach. Don't install unsigned packages or packages created by untrusted developers.
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.
There is no topic to carry on.
However, if I am wrong then I would dearly love to hear from some OFFICIAL in Novell/openSUSE
Get lost troll.
- 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.
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