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my non-techie friendsmy non-techie friendsPosted Apr 1, 2004 7:45 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792)In reply to: my non-techie friends by MathFox Parent article: Utah's anti-spyware law
Umm... In fact Lindows seems to have copied its' security policies from Microsoft. Unless
things have recently changed, the default install ends up with the user running everything
as root, and root has no password anyway.
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Lindows policy Posted Apr 1, 2004 12:51 UTC (Thu) by grantingram (guest, #18390) [Link] Well according to lindows.com they ask the user to specify a root password during the install, you can bypass it - but then you can do that with Mandrake too.There is a wonderful interview (osnews.com) that is so full of enthusiasm that it almost makes me want to buy it! However I'm already using Mandrake...
Lindows policy Posted Apr 1, 2004 14:02 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] Ok, thanks for the update. In fact it is reassuring to read that interview, I mean to see that they actually have people who know what they are doing. Even if their solution still isn't as paranoid as it could, be it's assuring to see that they know it's an issue. (Compare: I know I shouldn't use perl, but I still do occasionally, because it's often the easiest way out.)But since you/we have brought it up, have you ever tried to log in as root in Mandrake? First of all, it's not easy, since root is not an option in the kdm login screen. And if you are still stubborn enough to get logged in (via startx or by adding root to the list of kdm users) You are greeted with an annoyingly red background and a message box telling you to immediately log out and start using a normal user account. This is more than most other distributions do. Nice to know that somebody cares about me. henrik
Mandrake and root logins Posted Apr 2, 2004 5:47 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] > [H]ave you ever tried to log in as root in Mandrake?> [I]t's not easy, since root is not an option in the kdm login screen. I'm a Mandrake user, and never had an issue logging in as root. Of course, I very quickly set my system to boot level 3 text consoles, instead of level 5 DM, as well (yes, even as a beginner, as I'd asked for recommendations on some good Linux books and read O'Reilly's "Running Linux" when I decided to do more than play with Linux as a toy, which was about time MSWormOS came out with eXPrivacy.. talking about spyware.. and was compiling my own kernels even before I'd found suitable mail and news clients in Linux, and was therefore still booting MSWormOS to run OE!), and invoked KDE, my desktop of choice, from a logged-in user at the console. However, I seldom log into an X session as root. I think the last time I did it was to check what I suspected was permission issues, as I couldn't log in as a normal user. It turned out I was right, but as soon as I'd had it confirmed by successfully logging in as root, I logged back out, to complete the rest of my trouble shooting and fixing at the console or with the good old mc. I do, BTW, think Mandrake's policy is about right. Anyone not at home at the command line NEEDS a DIRE warning if they somehow get an X session as root! Duncan
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