Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 05:16:56PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Hakan Bayındır wrote: > > > I think AppImages are great (from my perspective) for allowing people to run > whatever they want on their systems, without getting root privileges and > having a sandboxed, hermetically sealed application with batteries included. If they actually did that, it would

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Hakan Bayındır
On 1.12.2022 12:16, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or explicitly acquiring privilege of) user. The general idea of a

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 05:16:56PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > > > Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any > > package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or > > explicitly acquiring privilege

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any > package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or > explicitly acquiring privilege of) user. The general idea of a safe way to allow users to manage

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-11-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Patrice Duroux wrote: > Already possible or not, I would like to have a Debian system for > which packages can be installed either by a specific user > (root/sysadmin as usual) only or by any other (or a group of) users. > But this would also depend on the class of the requested packages: > 1.

a two cent suggestion

2022-11-26 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian people, Already possible or not, I would like to have a Debian system for which packages can be installed either by a specific user (root/sysadmin as usual) only or by any other (or a group of) users. But this would also depend on the class of the requested packages: 1. packages