On vr, 2007-02-23 at 11:37 +0100, Milan wrote: > Hey, you guys have a geek way of thinking I didn't expected to encounter > on an Ubuntu mailing list ! I'm not talking about five-year-old > children's ability to type in a password, nor of the need of their > parents to control them. I'm talking of making life easier to users who > want to use this feature. Let's them bring up their child as they want to !
I gave the very young children as an example why a passwordless account might be useful (even if there is an adult around, she/he might be doing other work and preferring not to interrupt it). > For you, typing a password each time you log in isn't an issue. But I > believe using the console is not neither. For a "normal" end-user, this > is boring. Having to type a PIN-code before getting my money from an ATM (or having to type it twice when using a "self-bank"!) is boring too. Yet I wouldn't want it to just give this money to the guy who stole my wallet. > Moreover, this feature won't bring down security at all: you still need > to enter your password to use gksudo, or ssh... There is a lot of privacy-related things that don't require a password... > This is only an old > Unix-geek reflex putting down Windows about its lacks. But this is not a > lack, even Windows has many! Linux power is that you can enable almost > all features you want/need, while they are not dangerous. Well, it already *is* possible to do what you want, but IMHO it's just not a good default setting, and especially not for users that have "administrator" rights... [...] > The question is, do we want to discourage people from switching to > Linux, and do we want Ubuntu to be the best distribution for home > end-users? I don't believe removing security measures at the same time as Microsoft is adding them is really going to make Ubuntu the _best_ distro... -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
