On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 15:36, Willem Riede wrote: > Users who want to be protected against themselves can go run > "that other OS". > I don't want Fedora to go in that direction. Until distributions' install process _make_a_SERIOUS_effort_ of turning users away from the root account, many inexperienced users might be running a GNU/Linux system as root. XFree86 and everything over it. This is hideous, and tantamount to Windows 9x. You _have_ to protect users against themselves, but in an intelligent way, ie, one that can be easily tweaked by a minimally skilled administrator. Refusing to _build_ software as root _is_good_. An under previledged user should be used, instead. As Alan Cox said, though, SELinux ight make that a bit easier. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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