[2854] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat 4.0; misc ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Tue Nov 5 18:39:13 1996
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 15:36:57 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Chris Evans wrote:
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> 4) Control panel - as much more GUI configuration as you can cram in :-)
> Seriously, a nice feature would be to let some non-root users have the
> privilege to perform certain tasks.
I disagree. You can't make an OS secure and managed by
all the users simultaneously. I would like to see RH
more secure in the way that simple users can not (mis)
configure the system. What you're proposing is "let's
give users privileges to reconfigure time, root password,
devices"... It may be good for you because you're using it
as a standalone box, but I would be very disappointed
if someone logged on to my box and re-compiled my kernel
plus put a trojan horse. The more strict and dictatorial
default security measures RedHat makes on their distribution,
the better it is. If I wanted an OS that can be (mis)
configured by anyone, I'd get OS/2 or Winblowz.
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