[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 11:57 my mailbox was graced by a message from nicolas 
vigier who wrote:
> It's not clear if we are talking about installing updates only, or
> upgrading to a new version of the distribution. 

In my case, which started this thread, it was an update that hosed the system.

> Installing updates is supposed to be safe and can be allowed by default 
> with user password. 

In this case it caused KDE to crash at start of session.

> But upgrading to a new distribution is more dangerous and should
> probably only be allowed with root password.

Update was bad enough, and should not be allowed to user either  ;-3)
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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