I think the idea is to provide the same type of control that you have with Active Directory and GPO software polices. Which are based on HASH values or Certificates rolled out by GPO. I don't think the developers where looking at it from the same view point of system administrators. Who most likely are going to be in a corporate environment. They want software (installs) to be easy for people switching over from Windows.
I say that based on what one of the mission statements ( with a lot of paraphrasing on my part. ) from Fedora Project. I think if you where to role this out in a corporate environment this would work out really well. If one was to do it correctly and maintain their own software repositories. Which would decrease the number of help desk calls when a user needed some software installed to do there job. <Personal Opinion> I have the view point that if have a based image ( Stripped down OS ) you reduce security issues because you don't have Acrobat or Flash installed on 500 machines in your environment. You only have Acrobat or flash installed on the machines of the people who need to use that software. In a perfect world that would be 10 or 15 people. Which is a different line of thinking from most Microsoft shops where they want every machine to be exactly the same to reduce software conflicts. </Personal Opinion> Sorry for the rant. mmiller On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Xavier Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > First, sorry for my broken english. > > > This is from Dailydave. Have a look at this bug report from RedHat > (Fedora12). Hilarious! > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047 > > "Bug 534047 - All users get to install software on a machine they do not > have the root password to" > > All these years working to have a standard and controlled environment. Now > all this is bs and everybody > should be able to install whatever they want in a desktop environment because > the packages are signed and are trusted (secure). > > > "PackageKit allows you to install signed content from signed repositories > without a password by default. It only asks you to authenticate if anything is > unsigned or the signatures are wrong. " > > Fail! > > Regards, > > Xavier Garcia > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
