On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 18:11 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> On 10/15/2007 05:03 PM, Anders Damm wrote:
> > Use One-klick on http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3 ;-)
> >   
> What is up with the link http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-kde.ymp. 
> I clicked on it, which then asked me which app should open it, and yast
> was preselected.  It then actually launched a Yast module I had not seen
> before to add repositories I had already added, but WITHOUT prompting
> for root's password.  I am using Firefox.  That sounds like a security
> problem big time.  How could any user gain root's access via a link in a
> browser, or what exactly is that ymp file?

  Odd it asked me for the root password.  Are you sure it wasn't buried
on the screen somewhere?

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