Re: [LAU] LightWorks for Linux Demo

On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 23:22 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: I use the password login, because I want to have it for minimal security and I don't need more than this, but for serious security just having a password login is absurd. Encryption OTOH is very annoying, if you share mail directories, virtualbox settings and vdis by several different Linux on a multi-boot machine or even if you only wish to be able to easily access everything under what conditions ever. I don't need real security, just a minor protection. However, only idiots or very young children would be unable to access what ever they want, when the only protection is a password login and the default usually is nothing more but a password login without any further protection. I remember that in a German forum the moderation deleted howtos that described what users should do, if they should have forgotten their password for a non-encrypted install. It's idiotic to delete the howtos. Ok, it's also idiotic to forget the password, but OTOH some GUIs asking for a password enforce the user to use complicated passwords, instead of a password they wish to use. Why using a very secure password, when already the method of protection isn't secure? For some of my Linux I even allow to start a DE session as root. I never use it, just in case there should be a valid reason to do it, while I can't imagine one at the moment. However, this would be the other way, if everything should have a GUI for the configuration, than we directly could allow to start X sessions as root or at least to start file browsers for (the first or all) user/s by gksu or similar. -- Oskar Sala - Elektronische Impressionen Nr. 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJoRIlb6kTs Firefox 19.0.2 doesn't need a Plugin to play the video.