Pardus 2007.3: the same ol' Windows mocker
...so you should not install such a crap, nor recommend it to other people!
Until some time in March this year, I considered Pardus to be a very promising distro, but then I noticed how they screwed up the whole security concept, for allowing the "administrative" user to perform certain administrative tasks (including add/remove of packages) without being asked for a password!
I have also noticed that removing yourself from wheel will make you unable to open certain GUI tools: TASMA is a hack that replaces the confusing KDE Control Center, but unlike the original, it won't ask you for a password when administrative operations are attempted. Simply put, you can't configure certain things unless you're either root, or an "administrative" user. Terribly Windowish.
With 2007.2 (I guess) they added the option to set the first user as non-administrative. Actually, it's up to you now to autologin or not, and to be a regular user or not.
This still doesn't fix the wrong concept that a user (the first one, usually) "should" be able to perform administrative tasks "no question asked". Surprisingly, very few users and reviewers ever complained about this blunder of the Turkish team...
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