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    <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B> 
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<PRE>2012/2/8 Anne Wilson &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">annew at kde.org</A>&gt;:
&gt;<i> On Wednesday 08 February 2012 15:13:57 Anne Wilson wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Yes, I have seen postings like &quot;why do I have to use passwords&quot; and
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &quot;why can I not log in KDE as root&quot; more than once. Are these people
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> our target group? If so than - have fun! What strikes me is that you
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> of all people are advocating a loosening of security with no real
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> reason.
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</I>&gt;<i> I do not want to have to give the root password to members of my family that
</I>&gt;<i> are, frankly, clueless on tech-matters. &#160;At the same time, I do want them to
</I>&gt;<i> apply at least security updates. &#160;Being able to accept updates from a trusted
</I>&gt;<i> source (direct from Mageia) with only their user password is the safest their
</I>&gt;<i> systems can have.
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I understand the reasons. But you know as well as everybody else that
sometimes updates do not work as easy as they should. It could be
caused by a faulty mirror or by a glitch in a package (which should
not happen but &quot;should not happen&quot; implies &quot;can happen&quot;) or whatever
other reason. Then your family members will wait for you anyway (in
the best case) without knowing what happened - while they could have
been happily working or entertaining themselves until you come and do
the updates.

Apart from the understandable quest to make it easy on the unwashed
masses - it is still a security break - see what I have written about
the ability of xguest to do updates (while xguest was invented to
leave the system without garbage or damage at the end of his/her
session).

-- 
wobo
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