Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Putrycz, Erik wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> >     
>
> Why don't you precise how this lowers the security and precise what kind
> of attacks you are considering here, and back that up with stats,
> otherwise making all these claims in the wild and is not helping to come
> with solutions... 

This 'debate' has been going on since 11.0 Alpha 1 was released so go 
back to that time and search through the archives for has been stated by 
many people on this topic, and don't expect me to restate what has been 
stated already.

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