[Bio-Linux] Bio-Linux 5.0 pre-release announcement

[Tony Travis]

Stewart Houten wrote:
> [...]
> Also modifying the installer code (ubiquity) to provide a dialog
> allowing you to set a manager password is not really an option as the
> code is not easy to fathom (it is something we considered for another
> reason) and it would likely be tricky to maintain during future
> updates to the image.  There are other ways around this but we wanted
> to keep things simple where possible.

Hello, Stewart.

I think there are two different issues to consider: One is the 'live' 
DVD user, the other is the 'primary' user: When I created 'biobuntu', I 
set the 'live' DVD user to "manager" using 'reconstructor' to remaster 
the Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS 'live' CD.

In NuGO we have a mandatory policy of making UID 1000 the local admin 
"manager", and UID "1001" remote admin "nugo". I think it is unwise to 
use the 'primary' user account by default, because it is a proxy for 
"root". I use the same policy on all our servers here, and my laptop!

Not tried your latest beta yet, but I have downloaded it :-)

Bye,

	Tony.
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