F14 Beta RC3 images available for validation testing!

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Sep 22 14:11:02 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 08:56 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> The assumption that the person potentially getting root is able to boot the
> system is not be correct in all use cases.
> 
> On a live image with an encrypted, persistent /home, you could in theory let
> someone else use the image after it was booted. (Who wouldn't be able to
> get /home mounted on their own.) They might not even being physically
> present at the machine the image is running on.

I think we work on the basis that this is not at all the typical use
case for a live image, and that if you were doing that, you'd probably
know you should set a root password. Why would you do that, btw?
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