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Author: Alessandro Selli
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Subject: Re: [DNG] gvfs depends on libsystemd0
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 at 14:18:34 -0700 Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandroselli@???):
>
>> As sudo can be made to operate either requiring the user to type his
>> own password or no password, stating (now) that just "a particular usage
>> model" of sudo constiutes a proxy for the superuser's password can only
>> refer to the case the user has to type his password. If you think using
>> an unprivileged user's password to carry out privileged tasks will lead
>> to a root password bypass by some attacker....
>
> I did not so claim.


This is what can be logically inferred from what you wrote.

> I honestly think my point was abundantly clear.


No, every time, now included, you always failed to explain how in the world
could typing the superuser's password be considered safer that typing an
underprivileged user's one or no password at all when one has to mount a
filesystem.

> And I really have no
> desire to argue.


You stated this over and over again but you always failed following up on
your own words.



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