On Freitag, 30. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Eez > > a byootiful dai todai': > > On Freitag, 30. März 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > The neat computers in the world today deserver Linux, and let's face > > > it, we all deserve to be gurus on 90% of computers and not 5%. > > > > 5% is totally ok for me, if 90% marketshare means ubuntu > > I mean no real root (ubuntu), > > This is silly, Ubuntu has just as much of a root as any other linux, it > just randomizes/expires the password instead of prompting you for one by > default. A simple 'sudo passwd' will fix let you login or su to root. Of > course, you might as well just use 'sudo -s'. > > Personally, I use Kubuntu on my laptop and have never had a reason to > change root's password from the default. Even on my Gentoo desktop, I use > sudo (and my user password) 100x more often than su/login and the root > password. > > The choice to not ask for root's password during installation was amde for > good reason. One less question makes the installation easier and faster, > and providing the randomized password + sudo access increases or at least > does not decrease security afforded by the "old" Debian way (which ends up > prompting for two passwords; each twice).
one question makes soooo much of a difference. And instead of two passwords, one never entered in X, an attacker only needs to capture your user password, which is typed in douzends of time, to f* up your machine.... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
