[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

[Alejandro López]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <
renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 09:35 my mailbox was graced by a message from
> Michael
> Scherer who wrote:
>
> > And I truly doubt that having a separate person ( ie, asking to someone
> > else who has the root password ) would have avoid any issues due to
> > upgrade. I am pretty sure that both of us would have also updated the
> > computer.
>
> It would have avoided the issue of the computer going down when I was not
> available for support.
>
> I would have done the update, hosed the system, and been on the spot to re-
> install immediately, leaving him with a functional system instead of his
> being
> without computer until I returned..
>
> I guess that Mageia's default configuration was conceived for people
managing themselves their systems. If there is a different person
administering the system, then it's this person's responsibility to change
the default behavior to prevent a normal user from updating the system.
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