Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-06 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
2002-10-06 23:47, Todd Flinders writes: > That was an active philisophical decision to not implement the GNU su that > way. According to Free as In Freedom, Stallman had many ethical problems > with the password implementation. The weakened security of su was > intentional. > > You'd think t

Re: [expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
2002-10-06 04:50, David Guntner writes: > KhoGuan PhuaN grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > If you don't think so, and want to stick to level 4 or 5(paranoid > > level), edit /etc/security/msec/level.local, which does not exist by > > default, to creat

Re: [expert] What does msec want in 9.0?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
David Guntner writes: > Well, I finally managed to get ML 9.0 installed on my box, thanks to lots of > help from everyone here. > > However, it looks like a number of things have changed (I'm not entirely sure > that they're all for the better, but that's just me :), and I'm having a > number

Re: [expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
> Vox writes: > Eduardo Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am having a problem with 9.0: Mandrkae terminates with my logon session > > without any warning or messages. It does that automatically. How can I get > > rid of this annoying behaviour? > > That's part of msec's stuff...you