Sudo even more secure

[Jan Claeys]

Op wo, 22-03-2006 te 12:08 -0500, schreef John Richard Moser:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > This reminds me about something I have been thinking about for some time
> > now: I think (something like) apt & dpkg doesn't/shouldn't really *need*
> > root privileges, except for some limited number of system packages?

> You definitely want root access on package management.  Otherwise users
> can remove other users' packages; install trojans and viruses; etc. 

I don't want everybody to be able to install (system-wide) packages, but
I want apt to (be able to) run as non-root...

Why doesn't/can't apt & co. run as (e.g.) a user "apt" to install
packages that aren't core system packages?


-- 
Jan Claeys