Basil Chupin wrote:
Kevin Dupuy wrote:
On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 12:42 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Vahis <waxborg@gmail.com> [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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org