----- Original Message ----- > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A number of OSes default to having the first created user be the > > "Administrator", including OSX, Windows and, closer to our usage, Ubuntu. > > I have no idea about OSX/Ubuntu but my understanding of Windows was > that that was no longer the case, but again it's 2 years since I've > looked at that closely. It was the case for the OEM installs I encountered... > > I don't think that defaulting to the first user being an admin is a problem > > for people installing multiple machines, as this would be something they > > would look for. I'd much rather force having an admin on the system and > > get rid of the root user as something you can log in as. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 19:56 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> >> it defaults to unchecked. > >> > > >> > Frankly, this is a bad default.... > >> > >> I disagree, the standard for security is to give the least possible > >> permissions by default and add as necessary. For the vast majority of > >> day to day tasks don't need admin access these days due to polkit > >> policy for local users so for an average user there is no need. > >> > >> Peter > >> -- > >> desktop mailing list > >> desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop > > -- > > desktop mailing list > > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
