Hi all,
I'm trying to write up the "remove root login via display-manager" thread for the Devel news beat and I'm completely stumped as to what Alan Cox is saying in this comment:
"And my violent objection would be to forcing the creation of a local user account IFF the user has not selected any remote authentication scheme. If I've not ticked any of ldap, nis, .. etc then its a very good idea to be extremely clear to the user that they want a non root account." https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-September/msg01553.ht...
I'll admit to being tired, but to me the propositional logic of the first sentence isn't borne out by the second.
The first sentence implies either: 1) force creation of local user, no remote authentication selected 2) don't force creation of local user, remote authentication selected
and his objection to these is contradicted by his second sentence which agrees with 1).
Any thoughts?
Oisin Feeley wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to write up the "remove root login via display-manager" thread for the Devel news beat and I'm completely stumped as to what Alan Cox is saying in this comment:
You could just drop a mail to him. He does answer them usually.
Rahul
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:25:01 +0530, "Rahul Sundaram" sundaram@fedoraproject.org said:
Oisin Feeley wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to write up the "remove root login via display-manager" thread for the Devel news beat and I'm completely stumped as to what Alan Cox is saying in this comment:
You could just drop a mail to him. He does answer them usually.
Rahul
Good suggestion. He did indeed answer very helpfully and clearly. For those that are interested he argues that if network-based authentication is selected then it doesn't make sense to force local-user creation, but if it's not selected then the person installing should be encouraged to create a non-root local user.
Thanks,