was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe
At 10:00 PM +0000 9/18/05, Horst Herb wrote:
> Please klik this to boost your performance:
kli[c]k://somewhere-nice.org/lose-all-your-files.elf
same as deb ftp://somewhere-nice.org/ ...
or rpm -i lose-all-your-files.elf ...
It doesn't really differ from any other type of binary download in terms of
security. If you don't trust the source, don't do it.
But since the majority of users are installing software on single user
systems, it might even have a slight advantage by installing in user space as
that user - in the very worst case, you lose the contents of your home
directory, but not more
Is there a provision in Linux network for people to have a
centrally-accessible profile that could govern which applications and
data that office personnel can access, no matter what machine they
log into? Obviously it is faster for them to run applications and to
access data *from* the machine on which these reside but when people
exercise the option to store document etc on a shared drive, an email
using IMAP, it would not matter which machine they used.
To what extent would every office machine have to be configured with
user accounts? Would people create an individual computer account for
every member of the office staff who would use any particular
machine, bearing in mind that some personnel either normally move
among multiple stations, and/or may "cover" for others when off ill
etc.?
For those personnel who require only to use a generic e.g. GNUmed
account, could a single account profile be defined centrally, or
would a constraint on concurrent users (or other considerations) make
it necessary or desirable to set up GNUmed as a limited privilege
user account on each machine?
Would it matter to GNUmed whether klik installed all the resources
into just the user directory, versus into some shared directory or
something root level?
_______________________________________________
Gnumed-devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
