Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-26 Thread Adam Baxter
I agree, given that we're already going to be elevating via UAC. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers Post to : coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~coapp-developers More help : https://help

Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-25 Thread Eric Schultz
>> coapp-developers-bounces+tiroger=microsoft@lists.launchpad.net[mailto: >> coapp-developers-bounces+tiroger=microsoft@lists.launchpad.net] On >> Behalf Of Garrett Serack >> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:15 PM >> To: Jernej Simončič; Garrett Serack on

Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-25 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
uly 25, 2011 2:15 PM > To: Jernej Simončič; Garrett Serack on [coapp-developers] > Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp > > *cough* *mumble* *cough* > > Look at that, it's the Goodyear Blimp! > > > > I don't disagree with

Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-25 Thread Tim Rogers
ck Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:15 PM To: Jernej Simončič; Garrett Serack on [coapp-developers] Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp *cough* *mumble* *cough* Look at that, it's the Goodyear Blimp! I don't disagree with your statement. G -Original

Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-25 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
Arguably, it is an even worse idea to write a custom service to require symlink privileges. As long as symlink creation is done by msiexec, then it can be tracked, but if a custom service does it, you can't really track what symlinks are made on the system. The fact is, UNIX systems have allowed al

Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-25 Thread Garrett Serack
ad.net] On Behalf Of Jernej Simoncic Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:06 PM To: Garrett Serack on [coapp-developers] Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp On Monday, July 25, 2011, 22:53:46, Garrett Serack wrote: > They restricted a lot of the privileges that are available to

Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-25 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Monday, July 25, 2011, 22:53:46, Garrett Serack wrote: > They restricted a lot of the privileges that are available to > LOCALSYSTEM as a security precaution and no, they ain't gonna > fix that (their response is, if you need to do that, write a service). Which of course brings the questio

Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-25 Thread Garrett Serack
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 1:52 PM To: Garrett Serack Cc: coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Garrett Serack wrote: > > (posted on the coapp website at: > http://coapp.org/posts/2011/07/25/

Re: [Coapp-developers] Changes to the design of CoApp

2011-07-25 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Garrett Serack wrote: > > (posted on the coapp website at: > http://coapp.org/posts/2011/07/25/Changes-to-the-design-of-CoApp ) > > On Friday, we had a conference call to discuss a critical problem in the > CoApp package manager. > > ... when the user double-cli