Well, i understand. :) I was very surprised to find that by default root has no password on the OLPC!
This seems a mite dangerous to me. I can just imagine OLPC viri springing up, propagtating through the mesh... I'd love to have a proper sudo on the thing. It would make me feel a lot mreo comfortable. On Dec 21, 2007 1:27 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think people misunderstand the core problem: if root does not have a > password, then *any activity on the system* can gain root privileges > by su'ing to root. By restricting 'root login' to the olpc user via > sudo, it becomes simple to restrict the activities which can gain root > privileges, because our security system runs activities as their own > UIDs. This is the key difference in using sudo, not whether the root > account is 'well known', etc etc. > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- ~~ Microsoft help desk says: reply hazy, ask again later. ~~ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
