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.
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