On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:56, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Sridhar Dhanapalan
Also, are there any security implications of this? Doesn't it mean that
in a default setup, any local user can gain root access? Please correct
me if I'm wrong.
Absolutely not. Have a look at
On 8/20/05, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have any information I can say in support of an Ubuntu-style sudo
over standard su?
From my experence, there are all kinds of advantages to using sudo over su
- Auditability (commands are (by default) logged to syslog)
-
On 8/17/05, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact, it seems to me
that later users have (by default) too few privileges, at least for use
in a home environment. I'm not saying that is wrong, but in a home
environment you probably want to allow secondary users to use the CD,
connect
Robert Barnett wrote:
Hi,
I have a colleague from Uppsala University, Sweden. He uses ITK/VTK for
data processing and manipulation of Medical Images. He currently has a
post-doc position which is shared between UOW and a Sydney hospital.
He's informed me that UOW would not let him use his
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 07:20:37PM +1000, Simon Males wrote:
I'm guessing that he wishes to install Fedora on an UOW supplied
machine? If he brought his own hardware he could connect wirelessly
assuming he doesn't need any specific networked resources (though
printing could be a
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:56, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=Sridhar Dhanapalan
Also, are there any security implications of this? Doesn't it mean that
in a default setup, any local user can gain root access? Please correct
me if I'm wrong.
Absolutely not. Have a look at
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Is it a good idea to give *full* sudo access to the initial user by default?
This sounds like a security problem to me.
Yes, if you want your distro to be useful to the average Tom, Dick
Mary on the street.
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* Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
You did restart your Postgresql after you changed pg_hba.conf...?
good question - I have a feeling I may not have, but Michael's posts had
that as an instruction so I did it this time...
oh, adn I should probably have posted to the list sayin that
