Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:14:30 +0100 (BST) From: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brilliant and very useful for FreeBSD, IMHO Message-ID: <20030408205904.W40826@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz> In-Reply-To: <200304081148.36134.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <20030406172035.GA45332@netpublishing.com> <98he98nbau.e98@localhost.localdomain> <200304081148.36134.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Johnson David wrote: > But when I hear stories of Lindow defaulting to a password-less root > login, I don't think that's the way we want to go. FreeBSD does that. In fact, as I understand it, it is traditional for any new UNIX installation to default to a passwordless root login. The base systems get you to there, then you install your nicer shells, some user accounts, lynx-ssl and ln -s /usr/bin/vi /usr/local/bin/vim. At some point before the machine gets real users you set a root password. I only see that as a problem if the machine is incompetently administrated. FWIW, I don't care what extra junk gets loaded into the installer, as long as I can continue to do an impatient minimal install, reboot and tidy up with sysinstall afterwards. Bill. -- W. Palfreman. I'm looking for a job. Read my CV at: Tel: 0771 355 0354 www.palfreman.com/william/cv-wfp2.html
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