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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?</H1>
    <B>Thomas Backlund</B> 
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<PRE>Wolfgang Bornath skrev 8.2.2012 18:01:

&gt;<i> Apart from the understandable quest to make it easy on the unwashed
</I>&gt;<i> masses - it is still a security break - see what I have written about
</I>&gt;<i> the ability of xguest to do updates (while xguest was invented to
</I>&gt;<i> leave the system without garbage or damage at the end of his/her
</I>&gt;<i> session).
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It's not a _security_ risk.

It's a user with _root_ privilegies that have added the medias, so if a 
unsafe media has been added, blame _root_.

Otherwise they just allow to update from media that _root_ allows to use.

But yes, I think we should disable MageiaUpdate for xguest.
(and stop enabling xguest by default...)

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Thomas
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