To be honest, while Ubuntu is hardly secure, it is not DESIGNED to be secure per se. It is designed to wean Windows users away from M$ and toward GNU/Linux OS types. Kind of a "Linux for newbs". My family went from Win XP to Ubuntu years ago and stuck with it. I moved on to Debian, they stuck to Ubuntu and Win7 (eventually) as they are not computer enthusiasts - mere users.
Hell, a friend of mine, she was a self confessed "computer illiterate" and when I moved her to Ubuntu a month later she was learning how to write simple shell scripts to automate tasks - not bad for someone who couldn't work XP's Control Panel for ages... If you want secure as in, OUR version of secure, look elsewhere. One thing I do like about Ubuntu though is it looks pretty :) On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:24:36 +0100, Mario Vilas said: > > Let's not overreact. We're talking about a guest account only on dekstop > > systems, for local login only, and perfectly visible to the user. The > only > > problem I see here is not having a simple GUI way to disable the guest > > login for a non tech-savvy user, but no more. (Or am I missing something > > here?) > > Given that Ubuntu is an African word for "Can't configure Debian", and the > target audience of Ubuntu, the lack of the simple GUI is surprising... > > (Yes, there's still one config setting saving your butt in sshd_config - > but > for a distro that wraps a Teletubby interface around freaking /bin/su so > you > don't accidentally hurt yourself, the fact that there's exactly one config > file > setting saving your butt if you manage to enable inbound ssh seems a bit > of an > oversight). > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- My Homepage :D <http://compsoc.nuigalway.ie/%7Einfodox>
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