Anthony Yarusso wrote: > Jan Claeys wrote: >> On do, 2007-02-22 at 15:54 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote: >>> Should we do the same mistakes as in windows ? I think having a >>> password is better cause we should teach people about security >>> measures. and that gdm password thing's a pretty simple thing but >>> means a lot. >> True, but I see at least one exception: young children don't know how to >> enter a username & password. OTOH they don't need administrator (sudo) >> rights of course... > > I disagree. First, ime children seem to handle pretty much everything > about using a computer better than their parents past about age ten. > Prior to that, they shouldn't really be on unsupervised much anyway. > Better to teach them good habits early on than to coddle and have to > break those later.
I agree. I don't think making passwordless login easy (let alone default...) isn't a good practice at all. If a user wants passwordless logins, s/he should work hard to find how to do it (just like I did). In the process, s/he will learn that passwords are a very important part of what Linux can do for you (just like I did)... Ubuntu, in the sense used by OP, is already usable for home users. We need better support for hardware and a few more GUI tools etc but it's usable as it is now... There should be a *limit* to how "Windowsish" Ubuntu can become. Getting rid of passwords is I think really too much... I think we should "let people learn" about passwords. They should go beyond their Windows-habit of doing everything without passwords... I think we are adapting too much and too quickly Gnome's motto of "keep it simple & stupid" (sic)... As i said, there is a limit to this. Sincerely. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
