SOTL wrote:
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
And why exactly are you ranting about this on this list?