Thanks for your reply. I kind of understand what you are saying here. It does make sense. And, Yes, I saw the root being logged out at the shell prompt after a certain period of inactivity.
So, Does that mean, this same principle is also applied to the Mandrake Control Center? ....meaning, I open the Mandrake Control Center in the night and close it. And, leave the computer as it is throughout the night. I try to open Mandrake Control centrer in the morning and it would ask me for the root password ! Would it?
--Sandeep
Alastair Scott wrote:
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:56:25 -0400 Sandeep Khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:--
Hi All,Why should they?
If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password !!!! Freaky security !!!!
Also, If you start any of the Software Install, Software Uninstall after starting the Control Center, it won't ask passwords for them too !!!
I think the designers have made a perfectly reasonable assumption that, if
user A is logged in and has opened the MCC (or embedded applications) once
after being asked for the root password, if A is still logged in the same
person is sitting behind the computer and shouldn't have to enter the root
password again on opening the MCC.
A 'more secure' installation would force the root password to be entered at
every possible point it could be entered, and time any shell out logged in
as root for too long, but would also be irritating to use.
Alastair
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