On Sunday 05 February 2006 10:49 am, Jan Karjalainen wrote: > SOTL wrote: > > Hi All > > > > A little off target but this may add a little clarity. > > > > Playing around with different distributions I installed Asianux on one of > > my test boxes the other day. > > > > Now I will not say anything bad about program content it appeared to be > > excellent for a 2 disk distribution or screen graphics background et.; > > they also appeared to be excellent. > > > > Whit I will comment on [and I repeated the installation because I thought > > I made a mistake] is that there was no home user defined. After > > installation I had to log in as root. Apparently this is how quite a few > > are running the distribution. I was able to ascertain that there was a > > user not defined by me. I was not able to log into this user not knowing > > the password. I then searched very diligently through all the GUI based > > programs for one that allowed me as root to add / substract users. I > > could find none. Since my two test installations were a week apart and I > > spent a couple of hours on this each time I am fairly sure that I got a > > good surface feeling for the distribution and my response is: > > > > Thanks but no thanks. I know the issues I mentioned above are trivial to > > fix. My question is why? Why should I pass my time fixing a distribution > > that provides so little security that everything is dumped into one > > partition and one has to log in as root? Thus I currently have 2 nice > > disks containing Asianux that would be useful as sleets, Frisbees, mirror > > reflectors et but not as devices to retain programs in MY computer. > > > > SOTL > > And why exactly are you ranting about this on this list?
Who is ranking? The issue was that that the original poster could not understand what security was all about. I simply gave an example of what it should not be. SOTL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
