On 27 August 2012 10:28, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Hi,
>
> gcc76.fsffrance.org is a new machine now available in the GCC Compile
> Farm, it has a core i7-2600 4C/8T 3.4 GHz, 16 GB of RAM, 2 TB disk
> (not RAID not backuped as usual).
>
> gcc76 hosts KVM virtual machines with various OSes:
>
> squeeze-x86
> freebsd-83-amd64
> openbsd-5-x86
> rhel-63-amd64
> netbsd-512-amd64

Excellent.

> Each VM has one user "farmuser" and the password is listed in
> gcc76:/etc/hosts so "ssh farmuser@VM" should work from gcc76. The "root"
> password is the same as farmuser so you can use it to install software
> on the VM.

Maybe I'm being paranoid but I don't like the idea of sharing a box
with an arbitrary number of strangers who all have root access to the
box.

Couldn't something have been done using sudo to allow package
management software to be run, rather than giving full root access?

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