Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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.

To Patrick and Basil and to myself also, we are never going to "make 
sense" to these guys. They think that the practice established over 
decades is either a nonsense or a joke. I am at the precise point of 
taking to heart a profound philosophical saying, "never try to argue 
with a fool, he'll only bring you down to his level".
OVER done with and OUT!
Regards
Sid.
--
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

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