A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Dec 31 15:39:13 UTC 2009


On 12/30/2009 08:30 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2009 05:58 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? I
>> guess I don't know enough about Win7 to know why this is funny.
>>
> 
> I think he means the root password would prevent a user from doing
> anything drastic. Changing the password of a regular user could easily
> solved by root. Whereas in Windows most of the time a regular user logs
> in with admin privileges.
> 
You would think that display machines would be set up with a guest
account. Limiting logins to the guest account drastically reduces
the damage you can do. (Does Win7 offer the guest login?)

Mikkel
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