Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[SOTL <sotl155360@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

A little off target but this may add a little clarity.

Playing around with different distributions I installed Asianux on one of my 
test boxes the other day.

Now I will not say anything bad about program content it appeared to be 
excellent for a 2 disk distribution or screen graphics background et.; they 
also appeared to be excellent.

Whit I will comment on [and I repeated the installation because I thought I 
made a mistake] is that there was no home user defined. After installation I 
had to log in as root. Apparently this is how quite a few are running the 
distribution. I was able to ascertain that there was a user not defined by 
me. I was not able to log into this user not knowing the password. I then 
searched very diligently through all the GUI based programs for one that 
allowed me as root to add / substract users. I could find none. Since my two 
test installations were a week apart and I spent a couple of hours on this 
each time I am fairly sure that I got a good surface feeling for the 
distribution and my response is:

Thanks but no thanks. I know the issues I mentioned above are trivial to fix. 
My question is why? Why should I pass my time fixing a distribution that 
provides so little security that everything is dumped into one partition and 
one has to log in as root? Thus I currently have 2 nice disks containing 
Asianux that would be useful as sleets, Frisbees, mirror reflectors et but 
not as devices to retain programs in MY computer. 

SOTL