On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:

On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 09:35 my mailbox was graced by a message from Michael

Scherer who wrote:

> And I truly doubt that having a separate person ( ie, asking to someone
> else who has the root password ) would have avoid any issues due to
> upgrade. I am pretty sure that both of us would have also updated the
> computer.

It would have avoided the issue of the computer going down when I was not
available for support.

I would have done the update, hosed the system, and been on the spot to re-
install immediately, leaving him with a functional system instead of his being
without computer until I returned..

I guess that Mageia's default configuration was conceived for people managing themselves their systems. If there is a different person administering the system, then it's this person's responsibility to change the default behavior to prevent a normal user from updating the system.