On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 15:11:02 +0100, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
I think we work on the basis that this is not at all the typical use case for a live image, and that if you were doing that, you'd probably know you should set a root password. Why would you do that, btw?
I agree it's not typical and we don't want it on the published live images.
With a persistent /home I care a bit more about the image getting hosed than otherwise. I think this will mitigate the affects of some compromises. (Though the hope is that those don't happen at all.)
There might also be a case where I'd want someone to be able to use the booted system breifly by switching users rather than taking the time for a reboot. But I haven't had that show up yet.