Supporting And Advocating Insecure Practices | Linux Today

Supporting And Advocating Insecure Practices

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 2009

[ Thanks to Ian
MacGregor
for this link. ]

Yesterday I found information in the official Ubuntu
Wiki which teaches users how to enable the root account, this
information goes directly against that which is supported and
advocated by Canonical and Ubuntu in general. So, I removed the
information only to find someone had added it back. I removed it
again and it was added back…

“Notice Kees’s signature line and his email address is from
Canonical. Wow, it seems that the Ubuntu Security Team doesn’t
abide by their own security methods despite all of the warnings
plastered all over the Root Sudo page telling users that this is a
dangerous practice. “


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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