Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>Jeremy Katz wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:29 -0500, J. Hartline wrote:
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>>>Provide fedora and root usernames with blank passwords. Security is not
>>>a concern for a Live CD
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>>No! Security is very much a concern here. We need to make sure we
>>don't start a spread of worms from our live CD.
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>Auto login to a non administrative user called Fedora. How is that bad
>for security?
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If you have ways to log in remotely, then it could allow for people to
log in and start running, eg, eggbots or any of a number of other things
if there's a blank password.
So it's not necessarily that auto-login to a non-administrative account
is bad (it probably does make sense). But just that thinking "oh,
security isn't a concern for a live cd" is not wise.
In this particular specific scenario, it isnt much of a concern. Please
put things into context.
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Rahul