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[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

+ Renaud (Ron) Olgiati + renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org +
+ Wed Feb 8 12:47:57 CET 2012 +

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On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 08:37 my mailbox was graced by a message from Claire 
+Robinson who wrote:
+> > 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?
+
+> It is configurable in MCC. You can find it under Security => Configure 
+> authentication for Mageia Tools.
+> Just select root for Update.
+
+Brilliant, thanks.
+
+But would it not make more sense to have the default changed to root ?
+ 
+Cheers,
+ 
+Ron.
+-- 
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