On Sep 27, 2019, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 27/09/2019 à 00:25, Steve Litt a écrit : >> Show of hands: Who ever perceived a problem with using /etc/passwd, >> /etc/shadow, and /etc/group? They just worked . > > > Imagine a computer with no user, just root, and an empty /home > directory. You plug in your USB disk and, automatically, your disk is > mounted under /home /and you become a user of this laptop/ - no need > to have root priviledge and enter your name and password in the > database. There's nothing precious on the computer, except the > contents of /your/ disk.
So, now we're implicitly trusting $distro to maintain security for us, and $initsystem to not include a small hook to send telemetry back to $distro? I'm pretty sure that's one of many reasons many "Windows Users" have been coming over to various distros (and subsequently complaining said distros aren't easy because they're not Windows). -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
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