Fedora 35 installs packages without bothering me about passwords
by max.b from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5RTHD)
If I type
Code:$ yum install ...it refuses to run (as regular user), which is old school. But if I go to 'Software' and install stuff from the GUI, it never asks for any passwords (making yum's refusal a security theater)
I've never seen a Linux distro do that. I'm assuming they got a daemon running as root that just installs anything a user asks for (via the Software Center). Is this not a bit reckless, from the security PoV?
Code:$ yum install ...it refuses to run (as regular user), which is old school. But if I go to 'Software' and install stuff from the GUI, it never asks for any passwords (making yum's refusal a security theater)
I've never seen a Linux distro do that. I'm assuming they got a daemon running as root that just installs anything a user asks for (via the Software Center). Is this not a bit reckless, from the security PoV?