Re: Fwd: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Norman Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/5/7 > Subject: Re: Question about a recent installation > To: Mario Vazquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Fwd: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-07 Thread Norman Maurer
-- Forwarded message -- From: Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/5/7 Subject: Re: Question about a recent installation To: Mario Vazquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008/5/6 Mario Vazquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug w

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-06 Thread Mario Vazquez
On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: > To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be > used. I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges. I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer (OK, I do have them stored in a

RE: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-06 Thread doug
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Mario Vazquez wrote: I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created with the user/group privileg

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 00:08, Mario Vazquez wrote: > I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided > to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question > about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created > with the user/gr

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be used. I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges. I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer (OK, I do have them stored in a nice

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-05 Thread doug
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Mario Vazquez wrote: I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created with the user/group privile

Question about a recent installation

2008-05-05 Thread Mario Vazquez
I have been using different Linux distributions for some years, and decided to give FreeBSD a try. The install was successful, but have a question about how the root account is made. Found that the root folder was created with the user/group privileges root:wheel. Is not that a kind of secur