Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

[John Summerfield]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 00:02 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> A lot of my systems are for testing and can be discarded at will. There 
>> are no other users around, there are no internet-facing services, two or 
>> more layers of firewall and I don't use torrents or the like.
> 
> If the system is for testing, then why wouldn't you test the system as
> it is expected to be used - with a non-root user logged in?

That's an operational matter, and the answer depends on what's being 
tested, and what risks might be mitigated by use of non-root accounts.

The users' responsibility, not the distributor's.



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John

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