-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2003 09:23 am, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > >>This is fine if you're used to command-line, but poor ex-Windows >>sysadmins have problems with that. >> >>They used to login as Administrator, open Explorer to move files around, >>configure all their stuff. Now they are *forced* to use command-line to >>manage the system. >> >>This is what they do right now: >>->Terminals->Konsole (super user mode), type their root password, then >>type "konqueror&"
Apps->File Management->File Manager super-user mode (type password of course) >>->Mandrake Control Center, type their root password >>->Webmin (for Samba), type their root password Or change the perms on /etc/samba/smb.conf to give a certain group write access ... >>->Add a package, type their root password >>Then they close the apps, and have to do that time and time again... >> >>And when there's two or more admins, and that one has to manage a >>computer that belongs to someone else and whose root password consists >>of something like "p%G45l;*", they never remember it. So they call the >>other sysadmin on his cellphone, and the poor guy has to give the root >>password while in the middle of a meeting, and since there's >>interference, he has to yell, so everyone at the meeting knows the root >>password. This applies whether the person is logging into a dm or the console or running su. And it needs to be addressed, similar to the rights management Windows has. Maybe just a gui for sudo. sudo urpmi would solve this if there were a gui. And it should have integation with some network information system like LDAP. BTW, we just have 3 people who know the single root password used across all machines, changed often, and ensure that one of those 3 is available. - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+dfkxrJK6UGDSBKcRAothAKC5YeU9d8XBjVSF/T5p60Yq1FA3FACdH+Qi e8eCgR8fnREFDiSeDyR9T/4= =u7BM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
