...many factories don't allow chairs on the factory floor...
This is Steves fault.
Go try it in a virtual machine or a box you're about to reformat. It may not delete system files, but it eventually recurses on down to files you can delete and trashes 'em.
I haven't tried it, but I think it should only affect the users own files.
Funny how both Ubuntu and Fedora have 'application management'--yet I can download a tarball, compile it, and run it...
And before you say 'noexec', I just checked my
But the program will run under the user and will only have access to files/API calls that are allowed to the user so the only files that could be affected are owned by the user. If the user wants to trash his own files that's fine by me, as long as it doesn't trash the system.
It not just douchebags. Consider the noob who goes googling for a solution and someone says rm -rf
It's a feature for the enterprise customer that's already built-in. It's called corporate access management or "not giving users root" in rocket science terms.
You need a decent way of preventing noobs from messing with stuff they shouldn't. Then you need a good way of deterring people from screwing off--like locking down games and maybe the desktop background. Finally, you need a great system to try and prevent actively malicious users, like someone installing a remote access program shortly before getting fired.
This is also an already provided feature for the enterprise customer. It's called application management or "removing a package" in rocket science terms.
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
