On 3/8/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:29 -0500, J. Hartline wrote:
> >>Provide fedora and root usernames with blank passwords. Security is not
> >>a concern for a Live CD
> >
> >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.
> >
> Auto login to a non administrative user called Fedora. How is that bad
> for security?
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.
Jeremy
I have a working script for autologin.
So should I include this feature in my next build or not ?
in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf, I've only set
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=fedora
So is remote login still a problem for security if i have
AllowRemoteAutoLogin=false
Chitlesh
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