[Fedora-livecd-list] A French Fedora LiveCD.

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 3/8/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:29 -0500, J. Hartline wrote:
> > >>Provide fedora and root usernames with blank passwords. Security is not
> > >>a concern for a Live CD
> > >
> > >No!  Security is very much a concern here.  We need to make sure we
> > >don't start a spread of worms from our live CD.
> > >
> > Auto login to a non administrative user called Fedora. How is that bad
> > for security?
>
> If you have ways to log in remotely, then it could allow for people to
> log in and start running, eg, eggbots or any of a number of other things
> if there's a blank password.
>
> So it's not necessarily that auto-login to a non-administrative account
> is bad (it probably does make sense).  But just that thinking "oh,
> security isn't a concern for a live cd" is not wise.
>
> Jeremy

I have a working script for autologin.
So should I include this feature in my next build or not ?

in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf, I've only set
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=fedora

So is remote login still a problem for security if i have

AllowRemoteAutoLogin=false

Chitlesh
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