Re: The Dangerous User

Ok so Im wrong, I was informed that the accounts do indeed have the 
passwords disabled. I still believe however that It may have been fixable, 
in some other manner than redoing an entire install. Although a reinstall 
isnt that bad of a deal anyway I suppose, as long as you are able to 
backup what you want to keep in another location.

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:30:29 +0000 (UTC), uniQ 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> As you may know when AL installs there are 2 users: root and arklinux. 
> Both are
> disabled, but arklinux logs in automatically. The problem arises that a 
> user
> (like me) will try to stop autologins for security or something. They 
> then try
> to login and... UhO! no logins are enabled!
>
> My ideas is for Ark to alert the user, either on quitting the user 
> manager
> program, the login configuration, or logging off that there are no 
> enabled users
> (that is, it's impossible to login).
>
> It can be something like this:
>
> Warning!
>
> Ark Linux has no enabled users: if you logoff, you wont be able to log 
> back on
> again. When you start Ark Linux, you are required to login as a user so 
> the
> system knows who you are and can set up your desktop and other 
> personalized
> stuff. If no users are enabled then then Ark Linux can't give anyone 
> access to
> thier programs, files, or the network or Internet. To enable a user, 
> goto K >
> whereever > whatever and (I don't know this, I'm used to the CLI).
>
> [OK]
>
> Thanks, my 1st Linux flavor was AL9 and my 1st install got sunk by doing 
> that.
>
>        -uniQ
>
>
>



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