How is having it on by default a safe setting? Any sysadmin running
Linux should know how to update. SL is not a release for your average
user, it's for the scientific community. If I wanted an OS designed for
non-admins, I'd run Ubuntu.

And there are bugs in various software out there (such as ypbind) which
are not fixed in the current release and so having autoupdate step on
critical packages is bad.

Vince

On 07/31/2013 11:20 AM, Jeff Siddall wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 10:56 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>> I always add " -yum-autoupdate " to my kickstarts to remove it I don't
>> know why TUV adds it to the default image for EL it has always been
>> controversial at best.
> 
> Controversial at best, agreed.  But regarding the default, in general
> the safe setting is the right setting and having it enabled by default
> seems to be the right thing to do.  Any sysadmin who knows enough to
> update their system manually can surely disable auto update themselves.
>  Having it on by default prevents the rest of the world from being
> subjected to large numbers of vulnerable systems installed by less
> knowledgeable users.
> 
> My $0.02.
> 
> Jeff