Was: Ubuntu wierdness Now: Disabling security in the name of availability

[gmrwick-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Chadwick)]

On 8/14/07, Martin Owens <doctormo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Possibly. I'll test it later when I get home. I thought I had actually
> > used that too. I actually had set both the root and my user's password
> > to the same as I was going to give the system to someone else. But,
> > being used to running SuSE (KDE) and RHEL 4 (GNOME), I was unaware that
> > Ubuntu defaulted to using sudo.
>
> As an unintended topic of interest; what are peoples thoughts on
> enabling or disabling various security features (in this case ubuntu)
> when they give these machines to people are are not experienced with
> computers?
>
> - Martin

  Here is something that I personally am against.  Do we all agree
that the more ubiquitous Linux becomes, the more security will become
an issue?
  Not that I'm against Linux on the desktop, and I applaud SuSE,
Ubuntu, and whoever else is making these strides.  But we have to
relearn people to the ways of the computer.  We have to motivate the
large amount of lazy users today into realizing that their lives are
in the hands of these computers that they take for granted.
  Is it possible?  Can we get helpful people like Why The Lucky Stiff
to make manuals that are fun to read and easy to understand?  I wish
J.K.Rowling would write a book about these things.
-- 
Chadwick

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