[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

Wed Feb 8 12:37:26 CET 2012

On 08/02/12 11:29, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
+> I just had a call for help from a friend who used the Sytem Update applet to
+> update his Mandriva 2010.2 install and ended up with an un-usable machine, KDE
+> crashing when opening a session.
+>
+>   Never having used the System Upgrade applet before, I was surprised to see
+> that it only requires the user password to launch a system update, in Mageia
+> as well as in Mandriva.
+>
+> I ended up installing Mageia 1 on his box, but I wonder why does the
+> distribution allow the user to potentially hose his system, when it requires
+> the root password to install a prog ?
+>
+> Would it not make more sense to ask for the root password for the updates ?
+>
+> Cheers,
+>
+> Ron.
+>
+> PS User has been warned against updating in the future !
+> And as he is worried about his system going down when I am not available to
+> help, I am going to make a new partition, and put in it another install of a
+> different version of the distribution, just in case.
+
+
+It is configurable in MCC. You can find it under Security => Configure 
+authentication for Mageia Tools.
+
+Just select root for Update.
+
+HTH
+Claire
+