Re: Admin vs Root Authorization
Re: Admin vs Root Authorization
- Subject: Re: Admin vs Root Authorization
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:58:39 -0800
At 1:23 PM -0500 12/1/05, Andy O'Meara wrote:
Peter (and whomever), I encourage you to forward this to any potentially
interested parties for consideration. I would be more than happy to file
this in radar as an enhancement, but don't be upset if I think it'd get
filed away like we say the Ark gets filed away in the end of the movie
_Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
Heh, don't worry, we're very aware of the issues surrounding how
often users are asked for an admin password, and how many users run
as an admin by default.
It's tough, because if we lock down the system more, users are asked
for a password more often, which makes the system less secure in the
long run.
We really depend on developers like yourself making the right
decisions here, using 'admin' or 'root' authentication in the
installer only when you really need it, and using the correct one of
'admin' vs 'root' depending on whether it's something the user should
be strongly alerted to.
-pmb
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