* James Antill [20091106 16:14]:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:50 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
> >
> > 34 packages can be updated.
> > 10 updates are security updates.
> >
> > I think this is a nice feature, because many
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Seth Vidal said:
i don't think it is a security risk. Or rather - if it is then the rpmdb
should not be readable by non-root users.
If knowing installed versions are a security risk, then so is "uname -r"
and almost any command that
Once upon a time, Seth Vidal said:
> i don't think it is a security risk. Or rather - if it is then the rpmdb
> should not be readable by non-root users.
If knowing installed versions are a security risk, then so is "uname -r"
and almost any command that takes "-v" to display the version.
--
Ch
2009/11/4 Kevin Kofler :
> Richard June wrote:
>> It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the
>> admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better
>> plan would be to display that information *only* if the user is
>> flagged as an administrator, group r
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Richard June wrote:
It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the
admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better
plan would be to display that information *only* if the user is
flagged as an administrator,
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard June wrote:
>> It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the
>> admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better
>> plan would be to display that information *only* if the user is
>> flagged
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> It's actually a security risk to display this to non-admin users. It's like
> putting a sticker on your door saying "This door is not locked because my
> keyhole is not working."
>
By that logic, Packagekit displaying that to endusers is the
Richard June wrote:
> It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the
> admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better
> plan would be to display that information *only* if the user is
> flagged as an administrator, group root, wheel, etc.
It's actually
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>> "RWMJ" == Richard W M Jones writes:
>
> RWMJ> Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
> RWMJ> 34 packages can be updated. 10 updates are security updates.
>
> What a terrible idea. My users, who are we
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:57:29AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
>>
>> 34 packages can be updated.
>> 10 updates are security updates.
>>
>> I think this is a nice feature, because man
> "RWMJ" == Richard W M Jones writes:
RWMJ> Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
RWMJ> 34 packages can be updated. 10 updates are security updates.
What a terrible idea. My users, who are welcome to ssh into a number of
machines at my site, have no need to see
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
34 packages can be updated.
10 updates are security updates.
I think this is a nice feature, because many administrators will log
in to servers remotely over ssh and never see t
Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
34 packages can be updated.
10 updates are security updates.
I think this is a nice feature, because many administrators will log
in to servers remotely over ssh and never see the graphical
indications from packagekit et al.
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