On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 09:35 my mailbox was graced by a message from > Michael > Scherer who wrote: > > > And I truly doubt that having a separate person ( ie, asking to someone > > else who has the root password ) would have avoid any issues due to > > upgrade. I am pretty sure that both of us would have also updated the > > computer. > > It would have avoided the issue of the computer going down when I was not > available for support. > > I would have done the update, hosed the system, and been on the spot to re- > install immediately, leaving him with a functional system instead of his > being > without computer until I returned.. > > I guess that Mageia's default configuration was conceived for people managing themselves their systems. If there is a different person administering the system, then it's this person's responsibility to change the default behavior to prevent a normal user from updating the system.
