-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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).
Who said it would be without password? It should be something along the lines of "The X Window System failed to start, enter your root password to reconfigure the X Windows System". The only question, is who would be running this? (Svetjlo's idea is better though, better to have vesa X than newt console version of XFdrake). > Why not put a message into /etc/issue saying to run XFdrake ? Do you mean /etc/motd? > It will > display on the console, so the newbie gets the idea to do it. It is > trivial change and will fix the issue. <sarcasm> Why don't we have cron send the user email saying "Please run this task now" instead of running said task? It would be more secure than having cron run the tasks, as cron could run as an unpriveleged user ... </sarcasm> IMHO, a better /etc/motd (last time I saw FreeBSD, it had some hints in /etc/motd) would be worthwhile, but mostly for console users (ie " Permissions changing all the time? Configure msec using 'drakperm' (needs X) Missing software? Search with urpmq <name>, urpmf --description <keyword> or urpmf <filename>, install with urpmi <package>. Remember to update your packages by adding an updates urpmi medium and running 'urpmi.update update_source; urpmi --auto-select --media update_source'. Missing the tools you used during installation? Run 'drakconf' (console) For application-specific help, try 'man -K <keyword>' or check the documentation installed with a package by running 'rpm -qd <package>' To remove this message, run '> /etc/motd' " Now, *that* would be useful. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/oSzlrJK6UGDSBKcRAjrHAKDHQA87bWuiIArBfN1723CKrq78LACeNVhY A4l3jnrKk5fE7oJSGmoF2Wk= =wR3L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
