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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?</H1>
<B>Claire Robinson</B>
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<I>Wed Feb 8 16:11:51 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 08/02/12 14:57, nicolas vigier wrote:
><i> On Wed, 08 Feb 2012, Michael Scherer wrote:
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</I>>><i> Le mercredi 08 février 2012 à 08:47 -0300, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati a
</I>>><i> écrit :
</I>>>><i> On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 08:37 my mailbox was graced by a message from Claire
</I>>>><i> Robinson who wrote:
</I>>>>>><i> I ended up installing Mageia 1 on his box, but I wonder why does the
</I>>>>>><i> distribution allow the user to potentially hose his system, when it
</I>>>>>><i> requires the root password to install a prog ?
</I>>>>>><i> Would it not make more sense to ask for the root password for the updates?
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> It is configurable in MCC. You can find it under Security => Configure
</I>>>>><i> authentication for Mageia Tools.
</I>>>>><i> Just select root for Update.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Brilliant, thanks.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> But would it not make more sense to have the default changed to root ?
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</I>>><i> That totally miss the point, which is that a upgrade hosed the system.
</I>>><i> Would requiring the root password have changed that ? I doubt.
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</I>>><i> However, if the user cannot do upgrade without asking to someone else
</I>>><i> ( because that's the whole point of having 2 different passwords, else,
</I>>><i> that's just a nuisance that will confuse most people ), then he will
</I>>><i> likely miss security and bugfixes updates, and that's problematic.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It's not clear if we are talking about installing updates only, or
</I>><i> upgrading to a new version of the distribution. Installing updates is
</I>><i> supposed to be safe and can be allowed by default with user password.
</I>><i> But upgrading to a new distribution is more dangerous and should
</I>><i> probably only be allowed with root password.
</I>><i>
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It should probably be some comfort that we do actually have a root account.
If this were Ubuntu then it would require a bit more effort to lock down
than a choice in MCC :)
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