[Yum] yum is root-only???

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Apr 5 15:03:04 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:01, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > instead of checking perms on each run to see if the user can write to
> > the cache dir, just skip it if ther user is not root.
> 
> This is probably a behavior that might need to change with all that 
> SELinux stuff coming along. Pretty painful, I'm sure, as selinux has 
> been so far. :)

I'm not convinced that putting in selinux checks is 1. reasonable 2.
palatable at this point. I'm also pretty sure that making the cache
writable by someone who is not sysadm_t is a security issue of some
kind.

-sv





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