Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Torrey McMahon wrote: >> Joseph Kowalski wrote: >>> Bart Smaalders wrote: >>>> How will we insure that there are real administrative users present >>>> in the password file? >>> Are you asserting that installation must create a administrative user >>> (as with Ubuntu, Debian, others) or something else? If its >>> "something else", >>> could you elaborate? >>> >>> If an administrative user deletes all administrative users from the >>> passwd >>> file,... well those are the breaks. He got exactly what he wanted. :-) >> >> Boot off the live CD, mount the image, etc. > Sounds pretty insecure, but we have this issue already. >> I guess we should add something pretty bulletproof to the docs. > Agreed. My contact in Ubuntu (who no longer works there) told > me that lots of folk we confused by the "no login" root. It wasn't > really a problem, but it there was a major "what the ****" response. > > It will probably be easier for us as others have already been the > pioneers. > >> Perhaps a "fix root access" utility? > :-) > > (I hope the smiley is appropriate!)
After I hit send I went, "Hmmm....maybe I should have phrased that differently?" Famous last words, right? What I really meant was something like "Provide system management authorization for a user" and then you pick a user, hit apply, etc.
