Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[SOTL <sotl155360@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 10:49 am, Jan Karjalainen wrote:
> 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?


Who is ranking? 

The issue was that that the original poster could not understand what security 
was all about.

I simply gave an example of what it should not be.

SOTL