Re: [tlug] Thoughts

[Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007 14:29:31 +0900, "Arwyn Hainsworth"
> <arwynh@example.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > They are going to be shipping it with Ubuntu, so there won't be a root
> > password. Simple, but less funny. :(
> >     
>
> Exactly. Just think of all those 'Net-connected machines with no root
> password and with users who have no inkling of the security
> implications thereof.
>
> Maybe "we" should petition the Ubuntu guys to fix this hole?
>   
I'm not so sure this is a hole as such.

Ubuntu comes configured so that you can't login to root with a password, 
you can only su/sudo your way to root. In itself that actually looks 
more like "best practises" than a security hole to me.

I assume Dell will have a "run-once"-thingie for the first time the 
computer is booted where you can add users and decide what time-zone, 
language, password and keyboard-mapping you prefer.

kind regards,
-sig

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