Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:38:28 -0700 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brilliant and very useful for FreeBSD, IMHO Message-ID: <3E933344.7020100@acuson.com> References: <20030406172035.GA45332@netpublishing.com> <200304071107.40633.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <98he98nbau.e98@localhost.localdomain> <200304081148.36134.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <20030408205904.W40826@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz>
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William Palfreman wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Johnson David wrote: > > >>But when I hear stories of Lindow defaulting to a password-less root >>login, I don't think that's the way we want to go. > > > FreeBSD does that. In fact, as I understand it, it is traditional for > any new UNIX installation to default to a passwordless root login. There is a big difference between the two. Lindows does not expect you to ever set a root password or create a user account. There is no login at all, as near as I can tell. It's a very different philosophy from FreeBSD, where you're still expected to set the root password and create a user account after the installation. David
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