Epic fail from RedHat?

[gbugbear at gmail.com (Tim Mugherini)]

more here https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/277

Ive dropped a reminder of
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html to a contact
internally too

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Xavier Garcia <xavi.garcia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> First, sorry for my broken english.
>
>
> This is from Dailydave. Have a look at this bug report from RedHat (Fedora12). Hilarious!
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
>
> "Bug 534047 - ?All users get to install software on a machine they do not have the root password to"
>
> All these years working to have a standard and controlled environment. Now all this is bs and everybody
> should be able to install whatever they want in a desktop environment because the packages are signed and are trusted 
> (secure).
>
>
> "PackageKit allows you to install signed content from signed repositories
> without a password by default. It only asks you to authenticate if anything is
> unsigned or the signatures are wrong. "
>
> Fail!
>
> Regards,
>
> Xavier Garcia
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