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List:       freedesktop-xdg
Subject:    Re: Autostart and MAC security
From:       Mike Hearn <mike () plan99 ! net>
Date:       2006-02-28 16:05:55
Message-ID: pan.2006.02.28.16.05.54.536876 () plan99 ! net
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:35:26 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Obviously if an app is installed as root via RPM or whatever then it's
> game over.

Oh, I should note that there's no fundamental reason RPMs must have root
privs anyway: autopackages can already install without root access and
it's easy to imagine an RPM only having full root access if it's been
signed by a trusted key (from the OS provider). So we can start evolving
Linux towards a truly secure desktop, as opposed to one that is secure
through obscurity ...

thanks -mike


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