Re: [trinity-users] KSysV missfire

Hi Gene! Where's the problem of giving root a password? nik

Am Samstag, 19. Dezember 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Saturday 19 December 2015 01:52:46 Michele Calgaro wrote: > > On 12/17/2015 03:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > > > Out of curiosity, I tried to run ksysv from the tde menu. > > > Can't. If insists on a root pw that does not exist on this > > > debian wheezy install. A sudo -i in a konsole for me, and it > > > runs just fine. > > > > > > This really ought to be fixed. No biggie for me, but... > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > No issues here (Debian/Stretch) with ksysv. Just typed in the > > root password and it worked flawlessly. The fact that ksysv > > requires root password is not surprising since you are playing > > with the system config. Cheers > > Michele > > You missed the point, it demands a root pw, that on this wheezy > system, does not exist, so it cannot be launched from the menu entry > by any pw entered. The pw used for doing a sudo is not accepted. > That was my point. > > Don't put it in the menu's at all if the user cannot use his sudo to > get the root rights it needs. > > I am used to defeating petty attempts to mold linux networking to > someones idea of consistency, but which is an abject failure where > one's home network, all behind a good router, is all based on the > common to all machines /etc/hosts file, with a locally carved in > granite hostname per machine. Turning network-mangler loose in that > environment is a no networking disaster, so the first thing you have > to do on the install reboot, is sudo -i, make the entry's for that > machine > in /etc/network/interfaces, chmod +i that file, then nuke the link > and make a real /etc/resolv.conf, and chmod +i that. If udev hasn't > played with things and moved eth0 to something else, thats it. Your > networking Just Works(TM) Then at your leasure you can uninstall > network-mangler. No use of its burning cpu cycles trying to tear > down what you just made immutible. > > Network-mangler might be of use in the situation where the machine > is connected directly to the access modem. Thats for folks who do > not understand the need for an isolating, natting, 20 hungry > pit-bull guard dogs for a firewall, router. Without that, a windows > box is owned 30 seconds after the cat5 is plugged in. The linux box > is at risk but its lower. I haven't worried about that since I > discovered dd-wrt, which can be reflashed into the better routers. > To me, its a transparent gateway to the net. To the net, if no port > forwarding is being done, its a cable with an address with nothing > on the other end of it. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >--- To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For > > additional commands, e-mail: > > trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages > > on the web archive: > > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > > top-post: > > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > Cheers, Gene Heskett