On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Richard Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:16 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: >> What's the difference whether the package got >> installed by root or via "su"? > > No difference. The difference is that if you're loading a GUI to do it, > you're running 500,000 lines of code as root in an untrusted > environment. > > Richard.
Well, if you can not trust a GUI then logging in as a user won't help either. Once that user invokes superuser powers there is no difference between him/her and root. -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
