Comment 53 for bug 445123

I find those commens particularly construtive in this context. This bug was implemented with little thought to the fact that it opens a major security hole in the os and prevents it from being used in a large number of corporations (esentially any corporation with a decent security policy).

The severity of the action has never been acknowledged by the powers that be. The last two major versions of Ubutnu have seen a number of major issues implemented on a whim that seem to be ignored completly.

Between this and a few other "features" like it I've been forced to abandon Ubuntu as an os which is really sad because it had so much promise before karmic.

Marking a security vulnerablilty as "Medium" and "Won't Fix" is laughable at best and takes Ubuntu completly out of contention as a corporate OS.