[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

[Claire Robinson]

On 08/02/12 11:29, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
> 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.


It is configurable in MCC. You can find it under Security => Configure 
authentication for Mageia Tools.

Just select root for Update.

HTH
Claire