On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Hiisi <hiisi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is your password still a 'password'? The other day I installed my Mom's Mac OS Xsecurity updates. I'm afraid she's not technophilic enough to use GNU/Linux. The very last thing I did was to have her set at her iMac herself, open the System Preferences, go to Users and Groups, and give herself a password. I was able to install all of her operating system patches without entering a password at all! I am quite certain that her identical twin sister's MacBook likewise has no password. I myself installed a whole bunch of application upgrades and security updates on Windows XP yesterday. While I have a password for my user account, I was able to do all those installations without any authentication. A while back I tried to "secure" my Windows 2000 box, for example by disabling write permision in the Program Files folder. Nothing worked after that, because so many programs save user data right next to their executables. I'd like to secure my WinXP installation but it's going to take some study to figure out how to. With Ubuntu, I have to use "sudo" to install all my patches, and root logins are disabled, although I can do "sudo sh" to get a root shell. Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha Dulcinea Technologies Corporation Software of Elegance and Beauty http://www.dulcineatech.com quixote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
