On Thursday 30 October 2003 16:00, Jan Ciger wrote:
> | Le jeu 30/10/2003 � 14:20, Buchan Milne a �crit :
> |>>Sorry to be against you Buchan, but as he knew there is a console
> |>>program in RH, he should knew there is also one in Mdk aka XFdrake
> |>> ...
> |>
> |>And what if the user had never used Redhat before??? This guy has
> |> been using Linux on hist desktop for over a year, do we expect
> |> newbies to know more than this?
>
> I have better idea than to dump the newbie to XFdrake (that is
> finally a security risk, since the tool runs as root - i.e. you
> reboot, X fails, XFdrake runs, you are away from the machine and
> somebody screws your computer in the meantime).

and what about asking the root password before ?

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Micha�l Scherer


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