On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Barry:
>
> Excellent instructions and I am considering implementing it:
>
> 1) Does this in any compromise my security? I am on the Internet all the
> time when my computer is on (I have ADSL broadband and am, technically
> speaking, considered to be on a LAN by Bellsouth event though I am a
> single user on a single machine at home.
If you have telnet rlogin ssh, or xdmcp enabled, yes in a way if they
manage to crack a login they will be able to pop anything they want up
onto your desktop (of course if they crack a login, i'd worry about other
things). My recommendation is learning xauth, but none of the above
daemons are active by default.
> 2) What's technially wrong with the Update button on the user's desktop
> in Mandrake? Why is it not working? It goes through the entire process.
> It shows you the rpms, ask for your password (I make sure I give it the
> right one. If not, it tells me that) and then it clams shut. Is it a
> bug?
I still can't reproduce this one :(
are you in runlevel 3 or 5
rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/gsu #says what
are you running the Original, or the one from update
what error messages are produced? open xterm and run from there or check
starting tty
> Thank you so much.
>
> Benjamin
>
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