Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
> > A number of OSes default to having the first created user be the
> > "Administrator", including OSX, Windows and, closer to our usage, Ubuntu.
> 
> I have no idea about OSX/Ubuntu but my understanding of Windows was
> that that was no longer the case, but again it's 2 years since I've
> looked at that closely.

It was the case for the OEM installs I encountered...

> > I don't think that defaulting to the first user being an admin is a problem
> > for people installing multiple machines, as this would be something they
> > would look for. I'd much rather force having an admin on the system and
> > get rid of the root user as something you can log in as.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 19:56 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >> >> it defaults to unchecked.
> >> >
> >> > Frankly, this is a bad default....
> >>
> >> I disagree, the standard for security is to give the least possible
> >> permissions by default and add as necessary. For the vast majority of
> >> day to day tasks don't need admin access these days due to polkit
> >> policy for local users so for an average user there is no need.
> >>
> >> Peter
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