Rajko M. wrote:
Asking to have same password for first created user and root is not bad as that would be the same person. Passwords are stored separately and there is no indication that they are the same.
Exactly. The motivation behind that default is exactly the assumption that the person who installs openSUSE also is the admin of that box. The subjective[1] impression when observing novice users was that they tend to reuse the same password for different accounts anyways[2] and to also tend to use too simple passwords if they have to remember several. The ongoing efforts to simplify the installation obviously targets the novice users so the current default of reusing the first users' password for root was made in the hope that this results in one strong(er) password rather than two weak ones. At the same time openSUSE of course does not intend to hide or weaken the separation of root and user accounts. Therefore there is only a link between the first users' password and the one of root during the installation process. After that the two accounts are separate as usual. There is no additional black magic. Ie if you later decide to change either password the other one doesn't get changed too. The first user doesn't have any additional privilege over users created later. If you prefer setting a different root password during installation already you just have to uncheck that button. cu Ludwig [1] we have no resources to conduct a study with thousand users to confirm that so we have to rely on watching relatives ;-) [2] the study that was posted during the discussion last time actually confirmed that -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org