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Skriven 2009-07-29 07:42:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: hey, baby, you're no clow
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey Wayne!

 > I would also like your opinion on sudo and sudoers.

 MK> I never used either BUT I did experiment with sudo for a chroot jailed
 MK> ttylinux that handled only Fido connections at the time and that worked
 MK> okay.  The idea at the time was for a possible internetted BBS which
 MK> would only handle typical text based activities and nothing else. It
 MK> worked pretty good although it never saw any user based traffic so it
 MK> fell by the wayside along the way.  Locally I have no use for either
 MK> since I have only two "users" which happen to be me and I already have
 MK> root access as the user root so I never need it.  The last time I
 MK> actually needed anything like that was on the Sparcs way back when and
 MK> only now and then to get access to specific hardware, usually a tape
 MK> drive. I never owned any of those machines and never set them up so it
 MK> wasn't an issue other than occasionally.  If you as the root account
 MK> sets things up properly then users shouldn't really need to get that
 MK> type of access and their home accounts should be all a user ever really
 MK> needs.

 > Does sudo introduce any particular excess security risk?

 MK> For sure.  If it is allowed over an internetted connection then it
 MK> could spell serious trouble.  Same with nfs, ftp, ssh and the such.

Hmm, just when I thought it was a stupid question.
Guess I'll leave sudoers alone.

 > Do I need to make my user password more secure as my root
 > password is?

 MK> If you have sensitive personal data in your home account and there is
 MK> access to it from a remote then I'd say yes.

The only sensitive thing I've got here is online banking.

Thanks for the reply.
On reflection last night I thought my question stupid.

It's starting to come back to me albeit too slowly for my tastes.

I now find myself waking up with the solution to last nights apparently 
insoluble frustrating problem.
That happened with lftp, I was trying once again to overcomplicate it
when in fact it's simple, though with lots of options.


Still haven't found the file to edit the AGP apeture to something more 
reasonable but found a way to avoid the worst problem that assigned
64 Meg video caused, crashing.

Now I close out my browser before switching to console, no more problem.
Slack 12.2 with KDE and Firebird running is just too much for 220 Meg of RAM.
384 - 64 for the video.

I know, I know, Lynx ;-)
Someday I may know half what you do about this stuff.

After I upgrade, this computer will be dedicated to ttylinux
and other small distros or builds.
I may even yet pick up Linux from Scratch, after I get a bit better at this.

 
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