Re: Ubuntu 11.10 now unsecure by default

[Darren Martyn <d.martyn.fulldisclosure () gmail com>]

To be honest, while Ubuntu is hardly secure, it is not DESIGNED to be
secure per se. It is designed to wean Windows users away from M$ and toward
GNU/Linux OS types. Kind of a "Linux for newbs". My family went from Win XP
to Ubuntu years ago and stuck with it. I moved on to Debian, they stuck to
Ubuntu and Win7 (eventually) as they are not computer enthusiasts - mere
users.

Hell, a friend of mine, she was a self confessed "computer illiterate" and
when I moved her to Ubuntu a month later she was learning how to write
simple shell scripts to automate tasks - not bad for someone who couldn't
work XP's Control Panel for ages...

If you want secure as in, OUR version of secure, look elsewhere. One thing
I do like about Ubuntu though is it looks pretty :)

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:04 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:24:36 +0100, Mario Vilas said:
> > Let's not overreact. We're talking about a guest account only on dekstop
> > systems, for local login only, and perfectly visible to the user. The
> only
> > problem I see here is not having a simple GUI way to disable the guest
> > login for a non tech-savvy user, but no more. (Or am I missing something
> > here?)
>
> Given that Ubuntu is an African word for "Can't configure Debian", and the
> target audience of Ubuntu, the lack of the simple GUI is surprising...
>
> (Yes, there's still one config setting saving your butt in sshd_config -
> but
> for a distro that wraps a Teletubby interface around freaking /bin/su so
> you
> don't accidentally hurt yourself, the fact that there's exactly one config
> file
> setting saving your butt if you manage to enable inbound ssh seems a bit
> of an
> oversight).
>
>
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