Re: More desktop security thoughts (was Re: GNOME privilege library)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 07:58 -0500, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> 
> "Oh, you know - the usr directory - we don't have any users on the system.  The tmp
> directory, and there was a really big weird file called vmunix that was taking up a lot
> of disk space."
> 
> Did the above _really_ happen?  Shrug.  I wasn't the one telling the story.
> I assume that the person telling me that it happened to him was telling me the
> truth.
> 
> But, with every user having the ability to do what every they want, the ability to
> do damage out of ignorance or by mistake must never be underestimated...

Exactly. Users shouldn't have permission to go to town with the file
manager or shell on the OS and application files. That's definitely part
of getting the line right as to what people are allowed to do by
default.

Havoc