Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Morten Kjeldgaard]

On 26/08/2010, at 17.28, Marc Deslauriers wrote:

> That is exactly the thing we should avoid. We _don't_ want  
> unprivileged
> users to install new applications. On a single user desktop, the user
> already has the necessary privileges to install applications. On a
> multiuser system you may not want the user to have those privileges. I
> have privileges to install applications on my Android phone, why
> shouldn't I require privileges on my desktop?

In the old days of UNIX, all applications in /bin and /usr/bin were  
owned by a non-privileged user "bin", _except_ the ones that  
specifically needed root privileges. These days, in all distributions  
of Linux that I know of, all applications are owned by root, no matter  
if they need special privileges or not. The wisdom of that approach  
has   always puzzled me.

Cheers,
Morten