Re: [Cooker] need for root password (was: dm)

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Cotton
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 04:41, Leon Brooks wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:29, Buchan Milne wrote: You see, instead of making it easy for a user to log in as root to do tasks, we must remove the necessity for them to do the tasks ... Agree. The one task which my wife needs a root password to

Re: [Cooker] need for root password (was: dm)

2003-08-14 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Mardi 5 Août 2003 08:07, Dave Cotton a écrit : I joined a company 20 years ago who had totally solved the diverse permission problems on the Altos unix machines they supplied to customers to run their software. They had a shell script that did chmod 777 on everything, solved the problem,

Re: [Cooker] need for root password (was: dm) [OT]

2003-08-14 Thread Jay DeKing
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 7:41 am, Leon Brooks honored me with this communique: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:43, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le mar 05/08/2003 à 02:41, Leon Brooks a écrit : The one task which my wife needs a root password to do is printer management. If it were possible to avert this

Re: [Cooker] need for root password (was: dm)

2003-08-14 Thread FACORAT Fabrice
Le mar 05/08/2003 à 02:41, Leon Brooks a écrit : On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:29, Buchan Milne wrote: You see, instead of making it easy for a user to log in as root to do tasks, we must remove the necessity for them to do the tasks ... Agree. The one task which my wife needs a root password to

Re: [Cooker] need for root password (was: dm)

2003-08-07 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:43, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: Le mar 05/08/2003 à 02:41, Leon Brooks a écrit : The one task which my wife needs a root password to do is printer management. If it were possible to avert this OOtB, that would be good. sudo but it's true that for example just to clean

Re: [Cooker] need for root password (was: dm)

2003-08-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:29, Buchan Milne wrote: You see, instead of making it easy for a user to log in as root to do tasks, we must remove the necessity for them to do the tasks ... Agree. The one task which my wife needs a root password to do is printer management. If it were possible to