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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?</H1>
<B>Renaud (Ron) Olgiati</B>
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<I>Wed Feb 8 12:29:49 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>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.
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