From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 13:38:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA6D37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16E043FB1 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:38:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HD100DXQLBHE1@thor.acuson.com> for advocacy@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:28:48 -0700 Received: from acuson.com (bull.acuson.com [157.226.46.72]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id GNSXJVAM; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:30:21 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:38:28 -0700 From: Johnson David To: William Palfreman Message-id: <3E933344.7020100@acuson.com> Organization: Acuson MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020611 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> cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brilliant and very useful for FreeBSD, IMHO X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:38:35 -0000 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