I am still waiting on the donated equipment but I did find the following webpages that tells about the mission. For those of you who are interested:
http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/childsoldiers.stm http://gbgm-umc.org/health/ganta/ On 10/13/05, Ben Pitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My assumption would be that if they're smart enough to know how to gain > root > access to the machine by having physical access, then they're probably > smart > enough to have root access to begin with. Not fair as a blanket > assumption, > I know, and not 100% safe, but in this particular environment, given the > limited power, lack of network access, and general lack of access to ANY > electronic equipment, let alone advanced electronics, it's probably fairly > safe. > > -Ben Pitzer > > > On 12 Oct 2005 12:46:27 -0400, Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:16, Aaron Joyner wrote: > > > > > > > > I suppose it goes w/o saying that you should limit root access to > these > > > machines. That's one of the nicest things about linux in an > environment > > > where you don't trust the users. You can actually prevent them from > > > breaking it. :) > > > > > How do you stop folks from gaining root if they have physical access to > > the machine? Or are you assuming they don't have Linux knowledge? > > > > Jon > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
