Re: More desktop security thoughts (was Re: GNOME privilege library)
- From: Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>
- To: Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: More desktop security thoughts (was Re: GNOME privilege library)
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:45:47 +0000 (GMT)
--- Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk> wrote:
> rpm is very bad at this and the kernel doesn't really deal with it well.
> I don't know how we want the fs to work to make the behaviour right that
> if user a installs OpenOrifice 3 then user b doesn't get inflicted on
> them yet if they install the same thing its rather fast to install and
> they end up with the same thing.
>
> Its about file system magic
>
The only case where it doesn't work as things stand right now or hasn't always
worked (and since pre-OOo 1.0) is essentialy self-incflicted damage by distros.
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Sander
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