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Adobe Air on Linux - A Security Nightmare [splitbrain.org]
splitbrain.org — Adobe Air is an application platform/framework which received some buzz recently. One of the most popular Twitter clients was written using Adobe Air. Air seems to make it relatively simple to write nice looking cross platform applications.Two weeks ago, Adobe Air was released for Linux and I gave it a try on my Debian Etch system. The results...
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- domfosnz, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5Well I guess it still is in beta. Would be nice to see this fixed though.
- sinatosk, on 05/17/2008, -0/+6this is not my blog... someone on there found a way ( although it's more work :s ). The info is at http://agoln.net/archives/106
Adobe AIR for Linux is still alpha ( not beta )... which means it's still not complete
Adobe Flash Player can be installed without root so I assume in the future the same thing will happen with Adobe AIR
I can't see how this is a "security nightmare" and the Adobe AIR applications themselves DO NOT get installed as root... they are installed based on the current user that is logged on... you unfortunately need to be a root in order to install them but then you can execute them without root - geoken, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Most of his problems are acknowledged bugs.
As for installing as root, doesn't synaptic run as root? I don't know what he means by 'the linux way', but apparently I'm not running Linux because I need to enter the root password every time I try to install a packaged app. Adobe AIR installs apps through the package manager. How can you give adobe a pat on the back for embracing package managers while simultaneously reprimanding them for requesting user permissions that the package managers themselves require?
That would be like thanking Adobe for providing an official .deb for Flashplayer, then complaining that the flashplayer installer (which is a deb) requires root permissions (like every other .deb). - tippmann1, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1I actually never had any problems on my Ubuntu 7.10 or 8.04 installs. I don't know why he's having so much trouble, maybe it's the difference between debian and Ubuntu (I don't see how seeing as how ubuntu is based on debian). But I agree with what he said about the install should be available in .deb and rpm formats.
- linuxpenguin, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2It probably will be once it's out of beta. It's not even out of alpha yet, though.
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