SOTL wrote:
Hi All
A little off target but this may add a little clarity.
Playing around with different distributions I installed Asianux on one of my
test boxes the other day.
Now I will not say anything bad about program content it appeared to be
excellent for a 2 disk distribution or screen graphics background et.; they
also appeared to be excellent.
Whit I will comment on [and I repeated the installation because I thought I
made a mistake] is that there was no home user defined. After installation I
had to log in as root. Apparently this is how quite a few are running the
distribution. I was able to ascertain that there was a user not defined by
me. I was not able to log into this user not knowing the password. I then
searched very diligently through all the GUI based programs for one that
allowed me as root to add / substract users. I could find none. Since my two
test installations were a week apart and I spent a couple of hours on this
each time I am fairly sure that I got a good surface feeling for the
distribution and my response is:
Thanks but no thanks. I know the issues I mentioned above are trivial to fix.
My question is why? Why should I pass my time fixing a distribution that
provides so little security that everything is dumped into one partition and
one has to log in as root? Thus I currently have 2 nice disks containing
Asianux that would be useful as sleets, Frisbees, mirror reflectors et but
not as devices to retain programs in MY computer.
SOTL
And why exactly are you ranting about this on this list?
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