more /usr/local stuff [WAS: Re: Autostart and MAC security]

2006-03-26 Thread Karol Pietrzak
On Sunday 26 March 2006 14:31, Mike Hearn wrote: 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

Re: Autostart and MAC security

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Hearn
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:35:26 +, 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

Re: Autostart and MAC security

2006-02-24 Thread Waldo Bastian
Good point, I think the Portland project could come up with a command that should be used to add things to the autostart folder. The issue is similar to applications registering themselves as the default application for a certain file type. Cheers, Waldo On Tuesday 21 February 2006 15:35,