mikewillis;2168582 Wrote:[color=blue]
Are you going to install Windows XP? Because that defaults to you
running with Administrator rights which means that you, or any
software you run (knowingly or unknowingly), is free to change any part
of the operating system you like without anything asking you ‘are you
sure?’. This is very, very convenient for the user in the short term but
it is a travesty from a security point of view and can create massive
inconvenience for the user when their system becomes full of viruses, or
they accidentally trash part of the OS and render the machine
un-bootable, because of the total lack of any ‘are you sure?’ or
additional authentication being required to make changes to the OS.
Vista and 7 both prompt you before making system level changes, which
is the behaviour you’re complaining about in SLED. Microsoft introduced
that for a reason and that reason is security. Mac OS X also puts up an
authentication prompt when you’re trying to change something at the OS
level. It is a good thing.
Linux clearly separates the regular users from the user which can
change parts of the operating system (root). A regular user can only
change things that relate to that user. The root user can change
anything. So normally you run as a regular user and all you can mess
up is your own environment. If you want to make changes to the operating
system itself, you need to do that as root. (Or as a user which you have
given sudo rights as Malcolm suggested, but will still mean a prompt for
authentication.)
If you really think about it, would you honestly say that having
uncontrolled access to the entire operating system all the time is
better than you being asked to enter a password before you make changes
to it? (If your answer is yes, you need to think about it more 
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Jesus tapdancing Christ!!! Why are you acting like a retarded child had
asked you where to buy some heroin? First of all, it’s just a f+cking
computer. Mine, not yours, not the Pope’s. Not storing any nuclear
missile plans or nude pictures of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the hard drive.
There’s not going to be a tsunami if I delete something by accident.
Just an ordinary crappy laptop made by poor Chinese people.
Second of all, you will probably think that it’s unbelievable that I
have had that Windows XP you fear so much, for years and had NEVER, not
once, messed anything up by accident. “Wow, you must be a f+cking brain
mutated genius, how the f+ck did you manage that?”. I hear you say.
Well, I have this amazing ability not to mess around with stuff I don’t
need. So there was never, not once, any need for a stupid password.
So please understand that I have read and understood the warning,and if
I end up in Linux hell for disabling the damn authentication, it’s on my
soul,not yours. Here, I’ll even give you a written disclaimer:
I hereby declare, of sound mind and reason and with no pressure from
anybody, that I have understood and acknowledged that disabling the
stupid authentication in Suse Linux or any other Linux distribution will
surely bring about the apocalypse, whereupon the black plague will
return and Satan and all his armies will arise from hell to torture us,
and our children will walk backwards, and the four horsemen will pillage
the land saying “Why did he disable the password?”, and the Lord will
smite us with his smiting thingy, and there will be no more porn on the
Internet. Amen.
Now will you please, please, please tell me how to edit the f+cking
sudoers file?
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