Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Feb 9 15:11:37 UTC 2009


John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> Finally, when all is said and done, security is _my_ problem. 

Depends. People usually crack a system and then use it as a gateway to 
crack other systems. Then it becomes more of a global issue.

I do
> expect that any sensible operating system will include tools to manage 
> security and documentation of those tools, but it should be _my_ choice 
> whether root can login, whether control-alt-bs kills X and whether 
> system-req+B does an instant reboot.

Correct. All that has been changed is the default. You can very well 
flip it back with some trivial configuration change.

Rahul




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