[Mageia-discuss] A possible risk ?

[Renaud (Ron) Olgiati]

On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 12:20 my mailbox was graced by a message from Anne 
Wilson who wrote:
> I do not want to have to give the root password to members of my family
> that  are, frankly, clueless on tech-matters.  At the same time, I do want
> them to apply at least security updates.  Being able to accept updates
> from a trusted source (direct from Mageia) with only their user password
> is the safest their systems can have.

So which is the lesser of the two evils: hosing the system with an update, or 
not applying the update as soon as it becomes available ? 
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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