Dave Miner wrote: > > And some administrators, at least, want to be able to control what their > users can do. Some of 'em probably take away access to tar and cpio, > when they've seriously drunk the minimization koolaid, so no application > vendor can ever assume that the whole possible range of users will be > able to install the software without administrative intervention.
And somebody who does that would also lock down pkgadd the same way, no? I still don't see any use to adding any kind of special authorization check to what is going to be just a regular old user space program with no privilege awareness at all. > we can't just say we'll enable > users to do whatever they want without considering the administrative > point of view, If we were introducing new capabilities into the system, I'd agree. But this proposal doesn't enable any user to do anything they can't do now. Rich
