On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:04, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lindows will run your user session as root by default. This is a hideously > bad thing to do, because it makes your entire system as vulnerable to > attack as Win9x or Windows 2k/NT/XP (when running as Administrator, which > seems to be very common). I fear that Linspire will make Linux look > terrible.
I installed Hoary a little while ago, and I was surprised to find that: 1. the installer didn't ask me to define a root password 2. once installed, I discovered that the root password was the same as the password of the user I had created in the installation 3. the user I had created in the installation was able to change system settings that can normally only be changed as root 4. I could open a root terminal without typing a password To fix the last two points I had to manually turn off "Executing system administration tasks" in "Users and Groups". While I believe that Lindow^H^H^Hspire is a wart on the face of free software, I was shocked to see Ubuntu seemingly taking the same path. Am I missing something? Disclaimer: I am an admin with the PCLinuxOS project, but I really like Ubuntu as well. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "Spyware creators have been taking advantage of gaping holes in IE's security model, allowing them to install NT services and OS extensions through the IE auto-install functionality. This is the primary reason I use FireFox rather than IE; I don't care about things like tabbed browsing so much, but I do like to know that my web browser does not have permission to modify the OS." -- Microsoft Channel9 Wiki, July 2004
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