On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:47 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Whatever purpose someone thought the s- versions might have ever served
>> flies out the window when the the administrator and the only user are
>> one and the same person who is just confused by sometimes having
>> commands work and sometimes not.
> This proposal is in the same class of proposals proposing to abandon
> "user accounts" and/or to use "root only".
No it is not. There are absolutely no security considerations *right now* for
whether a normal user has /*/sbin in their path or not.
Correct, security is not the point. The point is *usability*
It's in the same lane as
"Who needs root, gid/uids when I am the only user on a system?
This has nothing
whatsoever to do with access permission or authorization for actions those
binaries may attempt to make. Changing to root only definitely does.
That's
not my rationale.
IMO, this proposal is yet the n-th manifestation of Fedora going down
the drain - Frankly speaking, to me this proposal is such kind of
absurd, I can only turn away in disgust.
Ralf