how to get rid of the request of typing in password

[Doug]

On 07/23/2011 10:47 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:11:37 -0400
> Doug<dmcgarrett at optonline.net>  didst polemicize thusly:
>
>> On 07/23/2011 06:55 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> While it doesn't keep someone determined to get into your machine,
>>> if does slow them down quite a bit. If your unpassworded user is
>>> also the super primary user, then anyone can su root and have a
>>> field day, which potentially could bite someone else when your
>>> machine performs someone else's stupid pet tricks. Using a really
>>> strong password shows that the user knows where his towel is. :) Ric
>>>
>> I haven't been following this thread closely, but I *think* it was
>> started by
>> someone with a machine at home and nobody else using it.  If that's
>> the case --as it is with me (I live alone)--then of what use is a
>> password?  (I *do* use a
>> simple password, not a dictionary word, but only because the various
>> os's request that I put one in when I loaded them.  If I am mistaken
>> about the origin of the thread, then I apologize--mea culpa!
>>
>> --doug
>>
> If you are the first user of a Ubuntu system then you are the
> administrator.  With no password for the administrator user you are no
> safer from online attacks than the typical Winduhs user.  All one need
> do is ascertain your IP number<random hit-or-miss attacks will do)
> and they are into your system with admin privileges.  They can then set
> up any kind of botnet or malware they wish and you won't even know its
> happening.
> You will have been totally screwed without benefit of even a kiss,
> much less dinner and a movie.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
OK, now I have learned something.  Yes, I am the first user of Ubuntu,
Debian, PCLOS, Mint, Zorin, Win7.  I don't think there is any password
for Win XP, or if there is, I don't know how to set it.  (I actually
only use 3 of these on a regular basis, scattered among 3 machines.)

   Thanx--doug

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