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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Uncontrolled user app installs
From:       tlc <tlc () artemide ! us>
Date:       2005-10-31 19:20:31
Message-ID: 1130786431.29230.420.camel () tlacicero ! artemide ! us
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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 19:07 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Markus Huber wrote:
> 
> > There is nothing wrong with that and a big advantage at a school.
> > Windows boxes usually rot away within minutes, because everybody can
> > install anything wherever they want, they do not need to be
> > root/administrator to do that. And that's wrong.
> 
> Caution: there is nothing special about the root-only-writable /usr/*
> for compiling, installing and running stuff.  I was surprised to see
> Opera running on the Fedora laptop my stepson uses a few months ago...
> he just downloaded the binaries, unpacked them in /home and ran them.
> Similarly he has compiled .tar.gz's in /home himself and run the
> executable in-place.
> 
> You can mount /home noexec I guess, but assuming that a typical Linux
> box is much better in the "root must install" respect is wrong.
> 
true pretty much any user can install pretty much anything they want and
run it locally from their home directory, but so what. It doesn't affect
the system as a whole. That program he/she installs will only run as
their user and since they have no rights they can not affect the system.
So even if they trash their user account they don;t affect other users
and you can always just recreate their account and give them a good
scolding :)

> -Andy
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