On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:11 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > Personally I wouldn't mind seeing Fedora move to a no root login system, > like OSX and (apparently) Ubuntu have. Eliminate the root password > entirely. I can't speak for Ubuntu - but OS X has a root account. sudo su - and you are root. It weakens OS X because by default, every admin password is essentially a root password. OS X gives too much to the admin accounts - why do you think repairing permissions is such a common thing on OS X? In the early days it was *really* bad - as one could from a local account do nidump passwd . and then run it through jtr to crack weak admin passwords (and thus root the box). At least now they finally have some sort of shadow implemented to prevent that. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
