On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> Well, most *like* the idea of simply double clicking on an exe, and breezing
> thru the default, untill 'Finish'. The one hurdle I see here is administrative
> access to a machine. I'd love to see RPM and/or dpkg start to install stuff
> under an individuals home directory, aka, /bin, etc, when installed by a normal
> user, and have some sort of setting that would allow anyone to run it. I'm not
> sure how this would work, and maintain the machine correctly.
This also is solved in the latest RH release. There's a package called
usermode (I think that's the one) that lets you run certain things as
root, if you're logged in on the console. You can configure what it will
let you run, but GnoRPM is one of the apps that you can run by default, I
believe.
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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