On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:17 PM, James Knott
On 05/07/2019 04:42 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Apr 25 2019, Thorsten Kukuk
wrote: As I did a research on this topic some months ago for another project: Most security experts do disagree with you. And even Ubuntu writes in their security documentation, that the sudo rules and not having a root user that you can log into is the weak spot in their security story and was not done for security reasons, but to avaoid that new users do everything as root and destroy their system by accident. So for supportability reasons. They probably copied that from MacOSX.
Andreas.
Probably. Linux users know better. I often tell people running Windows that instead of using the admin account they get out of the box, they should create user accounts and only use the admin account when necessary.
IIRC that was the default with Windows XP and earlier, although even with privileges, Windows' cmd is a joke compared to capabilities of shell, which gives you a very easy option to kill EFI, and brick the machine entirely. Saying that Linux users know better is unfair, I personally started my journey with Linux at age 8, without much guidance from anybody. If EFI existed at the time, I would have bricked more than one computer ;) The userbase consists of people of all ages and experience levels, please don't assume the skills based on platforms. There will always be people that are trying out Linux for fun, and maybe if it doesn't end up bricking their PC, they will consider continuing using it. Linux is way more approachable to everybody, compared to how it was in the past, and I don't see the change in user experience going in other direction anytime soon. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org