[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 08:37 my mailbox was graced by a message from Claire 
Robinson who wrote:
> > 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?

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

Brilliant, thanks.

But would it not make more sense to have the default changed to root ?
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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