ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 16, Issue 93

[Bill Cairns]

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>>> ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com 07 December 2005 >>>
If I have to give my grand-daughter my root password to connect to the internet, she would immediately have the power to completely destroy my operating system. (By mistake surely, but mistakes are easy to make!)

So yes - in my particular case - anyone who can access my machine should be able to access the internet. But they should not be able to make any changes to the configuration.

Bill

From: David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet
> - To initiate a dial up to the network requires the root passwork (I would regard that as a huge security flaw)

By default Ubuntu will ask for your user password, not root.  If you
have correct permissions you will be able to connect.

I can't see how you see that as a 'huge security flaw'.  Do you want
_anyone_ to be able to connect your box to the 'big bad internet' by
default?

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>

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