On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:56 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > The assumption that the person potentially getting root is able to boot the > system is not be correct in all use cases. > > On a live image with an encrypted, persistent /home, you could in theory let > someone else use the image after it was booted. (Who wouldn't be able to > get /home mounted on their own.) They might not even being physically > present at the machine the image is running on. I think we work on the basis that this is not at all the typical use case for a live image, and that if you were doing that, you'd probably know you should set a root password. Why would you do that, btw? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
