Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 09 June 2007 07:00, Bob Kline wrote:
I log into the machine as root,
Bob,
normal way is to log in as user, start YaST give root password and configure
hardware.
What is the difference?
Taking that very few people have this kind of problem, and very few people log
in GUI as root [1], this is probable scenario how the setup works.
YaST setup is trying to configure equipment so that normal user can operate
it. It can see your normal group called users and set all permissions as
appropriate, but if you are logged in as root than it will be all set that
only root can operate equipment.
Why this is good solution?
It makes possible to change normal user group to anything you want for any
reason, and setup utility will still work. Even if you want to set some
device to be operated only by root the setup will work without glitch, but
normal users will be out.
[1] To limit number of problems that can arise from buggy software, use of
root account should be limited to well tested applications.
If user is logged in as root than whole set of applications available in GUI
is ran with root access rights and chance to make damage is much greater than
with present solution ie. regular way to log as normal user and grant root
access only to YaST and few tools.
Rajko, can you certify this is the Yast working? I have never seen
that documented. If true, it should be worth a wiki page by itself :-))
jdd
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