Re: Uncontrolled user app installs
Markus Huber wrote:
There is nothing wrong with that and a big advantage at a school.
Windows boxes usually rot away within minutes, because everybody can
install anything wherever they want, they do not need to be
root/administrator to do that. And that's wrong.
Caution: there is nothing special about the root-only-writable /usr/*
for compiling, installing and running stuff. I was surprised to see
Opera running on the Fedora laptop my stepson uses a few months ago...
he just downloaded the binaries, unpacked them in /home and ran them.
Similarly he has compiled .tar.gz's in /home himself and run the
executable in-place.
You can mount /home noexec I guess, but assuming that a typical Linux
box is much better in the "root must install" respect is wrong.
-Andy
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