[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

I just had a call for help from a friend who used the Sytem Update applet to 
update his Mandriva 2010.2 install and ended up with an un-usable machine, KDE 
crashing when opening a session.

 Never having used the System Upgrade applet before, I was surprised to see 
that it only requires the user password to launch a system update, in Mageia 
as well as in Mandriva.

I ended up installing Mageia 1 on his box, but I wonder why does the 
distribution allow the user to potentially hose his system, when it requires 
the root password to install a prog ?

Would it not make more sense to ask for the root password for the updates ?

Cheers,
 
Ron.

PS User has been warned against updating in the future ! 
And as he is worried about his system going down when I am not available to 
help, I am going to make a new partition, and put in it another install of a 
different version of the distribution, just in case. 
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