Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-10 Thread wulfie
Try Webmin instead - it's usually pretty accurate, it does authentication, and understands many different systems (Debian, RedHat, SuSE, FreeBSD, AIX etc, etc, etc), so if you like to tinker with several different Linux/Unix boxen you get a consistent interface across them all. I tried LinuxConf a

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 18:12, Mike wrote: > > Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > Other than that, is linuxconfig a 'good thing', or does it have security > > problems associated with it that one ought to know about? > > Are you referring to linuxconf? If so, I've nothing good to say about it

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread jake
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > I have encountered a program called 'linuxconfig' > > Surely ou mean "linuxconf"? > My advice: dump it. > I've used Unix systems since 1987, GNU/Linux since 1997, and Debian for > just over a year. My first experience with anything *ni

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread Mike
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Other than that, is linuxconfig a 'good thing', or does it have security > problems associated with it that one ought to know about? Are you referring to linuxconf? If so, I've nothing good to say about it. I once made the mistake of trying linuxconf. I then neede

Re: Please translate .sig; was Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:48:23PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Peter Hugosson-Miller > "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus." > ("Never tickle a sleeping Dragon") better to tickle awake dragons? -- There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be don

Re: Please translate .sig; was Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
David Teague wrote: > Peter > > I can't help you with linuxconfig, but I am intrigued by the .sig > quote. Can you translate it for me? > > > "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur." Literally: "That which is said in Latin, sounds profound." -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Draco dor

Re: Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread kmself
on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:44:24AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A question for all Linux gurus out there: > > I have encountered a program called 'linuxconfig' Surely ou mean "linuxconf"? > which, on the face of it, appears to be a useful system tool. It is a > cu

Linuxconfig opinions

2000-11-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
A question for all Linux gurus out there: I have encountered a program called 'linuxconfig' which, on the face of it, appears to be a useful system tool. It is a curses- based program, that knows where all the various debian system files are, and allows root to modify users, groups, networking co