On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Feb 10, 2008, at 6:15 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2008 5:56 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> it would be useful to change the password on startup, and print it > >> out. It would (I think) be inaccessible from the users, but still > >> accessible to whoever has physical access to the box. > > > > Alternatively, the admin password gets set the first time anybody > > every tries to connect > > to the notebook server (like in wordpress, for example). > > This sounds like the most sane idea--if a password is not set then > the user would have the option of creating one. In addition, the > notebook now starts up logged in, so a password isn't even needed > most of the time. > > - Robert > I'd much prefer it not doing this - I have to log out and log back in as me, must be my Unix upbringing - never do things as root (admin) unless you really need to.
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