Vahis wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 31 May 2008 09:40:26 am Vahis wrote: ...
If it is still default I keep whining :( All new users being automatically promoted to root from day one sounds bad IMHO I can't help it.
Promoted to root? In what way? It is just the password that is the same. Users have no greater rights then before.
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?
It perhaps makes him/her as blissfully unaware of security issues as the person implementing such a crass scheme. One day when the crackers turn their attention to Linux in a big way and the break-ins hit the headlines indicating that Linux is less or no more secure than anything else out there, perhaps that person will have moved on to higher things, the usual fate of such guys. Why or Why do these people regard new users as total airheads, with not enough brain space to remember a couple of passwords? I can think of a number of IT managers who would tell Novell to go take a hike if they were talking security and they mentioned this idiotic scheme as a plus. I have a 68+ year old and a 80+ year old both using openSUSE as their only OS and both would feel insulted if told they couldn't handle separate root and user passwords. Point is they do and they don't need anyone telling them they are born stupid, blaming them for this dumbing down insecure process. 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