Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 08:04:27AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:06:40PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > [...] > > In my gross stupidity this seems like a nonissue. How does a popup > > asking for your root p/w differ from using the CLI, typi

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:20:16PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 06:45:18PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > There have been multiple complaints about the new Gnome popup asking > > for the root password > > I am not sure what you are complaining about - that you need to spe