In MCC > Security > Configure Authentication..
All authentications are set to default.
Is "Default" defined anywhere?
On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 07:03:28 -0400, faeychild
<faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
In MCC > Security > Configure Authentication..
All authentications are set to default.
Is "Default" defined anywhere?
The actual default values depend on the msec security level chosen.
From https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/7/en/content/mcc-security.html#draksec "Default: The launch mode depends on the chosen security level. See in
the same MCC tab, the tool "Configure system security, permissions and audit".".
That's described in https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/7/en/content/mcc-security.html#d4e3223
Regards, Dave Hodgins
On 10/10/19 1:03 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
In the beginning (it seems like dinosaur days) one needed to run updates
as root user, not with sudo. When it became common to accept sudo,
users were advised that if they preferred the old setting, they could go into the tab Dave mentions, to change it back.
On 10/10/19 5:15 am, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On 10/10/19 1:03 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
In the beginning (it seems like dinosaur days) one needed to run
updates as root user, not with sudo. When it became common to accept
sudo, users were advised that if they preferred the old setting, they
could go into the tab Dave mentions, to change it back.
thanks Dave and Doug.I have more required reading.
My mystery, is the update applet refuses to recognize either user or
root password and was set to "Default" in Authentication in MCC
I have changed it from Default to Administrator
But I was curious
regards
On 10/9/19 5:20 PM, faeychild wrote:
On 10/10/19 5:15 am, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On 10/10/19 1:03 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
In the beginning (it seems like dinosaur days) one needed to run
updates as root user, not with sudo. When it became common to accept
sudo, users were advised that if they preferred the old setting, they
could go into the tab Dave mentions, to change it back.
thanks Dave and Doug.I have more required reading.
My mystery, is the update applet refuses to recognize either user or
root password and was set to "Default" in Authentication in MCC
I have changed it from Default to Administrator
But I was curious
regards
Years ago, when I was using Mandrake and then Mandriva, I questioned the wisdom of using the user password for this purpose, as it seemed to me
to be a threat to system security. I asked why it was that way. The
answer I got on Usenet boiled down to "That's the way we want it. If you don't like it that way, change it."
So for years I did just that. Then about the time I switched to Mageia,
I realized that since I'm the only one using this system, my user
password is just as secure for this purpose as the root password. And
now that I've been involved with testing updates for Mageia, I realize
that even if someone else authorized installing the updates that have
been through the process, it's HIGHLY unlikely that any would do damage
to my system. (Though I readily admit it CAN happen. QA is made up of humans, and humans make mistakes.)
TJ
In the beginning (it seems like dinosaur days) one needed to run
updates as root user, not with sudo. When it became common to accept >>>> sudo, users were advised that if they preferred the old setting, they
could go into the tab Dave mentions, to change it back.
Years ago, BOTH the user and the root passwords would be accepted for
these purposes (like opening a screensaved/locked session)
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