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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?</H1>
    <B>Claire Robinson</B> 
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    <I>Wed Feb  8 12:37:26 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 08/02/12 11:29, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
&gt;<i> I just had a call for help from a friend who used the Sytem Update applet to
</I>&gt;<i> update his Mandriva 2010.2 install and ended up with an un-usable machine, KDE
</I>&gt;<i> crashing when opening a session.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>   Never having used the System Upgrade applet before, I was surprised to see
</I>&gt;<i> that it only requires the user password to launch a system update, in Mageia
</I>&gt;<i> as well as in Mandriva.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> I ended up installing Mageia 1 on his box, but I wonder why does the
</I>&gt;<i> distribution allow the user to potentially hose his system, when it requires
</I>&gt;<i> the root password to install a prog ?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Would it not make more sense to ask for the root password for the updates ?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Cheers,
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Ron.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> PS User has been warned against updating in the future !
</I>&gt;<i> And as he is worried about his system going down when I am not available to
</I>&gt;<i> help, I am going to make a new partition, and put in it another install of a
</I>&gt;<i> different version of the distribution, just in case.
</I>

It is configurable in MCC. You can find it under Security =&gt; Configure 
authentication for Mageia Tools.

Just select root for Update.

HTH
Claire
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