Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Dupuy wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 12:42 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>   
> > * Vahis <waxborg@xxxxxxxxx> [05-31-08 11:30]:
> >     
> > > >  
> > > >         
> > > OK. So I won't give root privileges to a user. Just the root password?
> > > The user is a user that has root password. What does that make him/her?
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > A *user* with root password is root.  NO USER should have root
> > password.  Change "root"s password.
> >     
>
> That doesn't make sense.
>
> How is a user with one password to login and a different one for root
> any different than a user with the same password for both? If he/she
> knows the root password anyway, it's no different.
>   

Look, if Novell want to dumb-down openSUSE to the level of Windows XP 
(with using the same password for user and root, and also autologin for 
chrissake!) users then let them do it but let's cut out this never 
ending debate about this particular stupid nonsense  being built into 
openSUSE and get on with fixing other problems.

Linux has always made security of a system a priority. If those now in 
charge of openSUSE want to lower this standard then why not?

Ciao.



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