Re: Some issues with the way the install goes
- From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:23:17 +0300
Paul J Gans wrote:
houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Paul J Gans wrote:I disagree. With Ununtu there is no login for root by default. Here theCorrect. But the effect is the same. In both cases you
password is just the same. Someting the majority of people where doing
anyway.
simply do a sudo.
And how often is the machine compromised by actualy knowing the
password? And again, if they can crack the password of some random user,
they can also get the password of root. With root they at least know the
name of the account they are trying to hack.
Houghi, that is beside the point. This release of 11.0 hurts
security when there was no need to do it.
It doesn't hurt security because you're free to change it, no?
.
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