* James Antill ja...@fedoraproject.org [20091106 16:14]:
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:50 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
34 packages can be updated.
10 updates are security updates.
I think this is a nice feature,
Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
34 packages can be updated.
10 updates are security updates.
I think this is a nice feature, because many administrators will log
in to servers remotely over ssh and never see the graphical
indications from packagekit et al.
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
34 packages can be updated.
10 updates are security updates.
I think this is a nice feature, because many administrators will log
in to servers remotely over ssh and never see
RWMJ == Richard W M Jones rjo...@redhat.com writes:
RWMJ Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
RWMJ 34 packages can be updated. 10 updates are security updates.
What a terrible idea. My users, who are welcome to ssh into a number of
machines at my site, have no
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:57:29AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
34 packages can be updated.
10 updates are security updates.
I think this is a nice feature, because many
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu wrote:
RWMJ == Richard W M Jones rjo...@redhat.com writes:
RWMJ Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
RWMJ 34 packages can be updated. 10 updates are security updates.
What a terrible idea.
Richard June wrote:
It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the
admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better
plan would be to display that information *only* if the user is
flagged as an administrator, group root, wheel, etc.
It's actually a
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.atwrote:
It's actually a security risk to display this to non-admin users. It's like
putting a sticker on your door saying This door is not locked because my
keyhole is not working.
By that logic, Packagekit displaying that to
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote:
Richard June wrote:
It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the
admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better
plan would be to display that information *only* if the
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Richard June wrote:
It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the
admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better
plan would be to display that information *only* if the user is
flagged as an administrator,
2009/11/4 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at:
Richard June wrote:
It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the
admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better
plan would be to display that information *only* if the user is
flagged as an
Once upon a time, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org said:
i don't think it is a security risk. Or rather - if it is then the rpmdb
should not be readable by non-root users.
If knowing installed versions are a security risk, then so is uname -r
and almost any command that takes -v to display
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Seth Vidal skvi...@fedoraproject.org said:
i don't think it is a security risk. Or rather - if it is then the rpmdb
should not be readable by non-root users.
If knowing installed versions are a security risk, then so is uname -r
and
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