Re: Canonical trying to kill KDE?? - Fwd: Attend CampKDE... via ... (VOIP), BerkeleyTIP - Re: Request to mailing list kubuntu-users rejected

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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I will never use any of the Ubuntu distros because they pose a
>> security risk having the root account tied directly to the first user
>> account. Once an intruder breaches that user account the entire OS is
>> compromised.
>
> So change the root password and remove the user from sudo.
>
> In any case, breaching the user account is not enough, the attacker
> need his password as well.

Breaching a user account is getting the password.
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