Martin Marcher wrote: > So the user needs to get a precompiled gcc somewhere. > Then she would need to get all the header files necessary > Then she needs to get the source. > Then the quota is full... :)
Most systems come with perl. Perl can do anything any non-suid program in /sbin can do. Most systems come with ar, tar, and wget. This can be used to download any .deb and unpack it. The kind of "security" you're suggesting has hstorically worked miserably, see for example Microsoft Windows, which does not come with a C compiler or many useful programs. -- see shy jo
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