Eric Christensen (eric(a)christensenplace.us) said:
> It's a behavior change, for sure. For people who want to
lock down their
> systems, it's a default they will need to be able to change, and they
> should have been able to discover it through the normal mechanisms for
> that. (i.e., the release notes.). It likely should have been discussed
> when it was introduced - it's obviously not something that's applicable
> to all usage cases for the OS.
You are assuming that the users have physical access to the box and also
know how to get a root shell and that the box hasn't been hardened
(before the PK vulnerability was known).
Sure, I said 'out of the box'. Out of the box none of those other
hardening steps are done either, which is why if this is a policy
that we want, it should be documented as a hardening step that can
be taken.
Bill