Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-06 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
2002-10-06 23:47, Todd Flinders writes: That was an active philisophical decision to not implement the GNU su that way. According to Free as In Freedom, Stallman had many ethical problems with the password implementation. The weakened security of su was intentional. You'd think

Re: [expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
Vox writes: Eduardo Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem with 9.0: Mandrkae terminates with my logon session without any warning or messages. It does that automatically. How can I get rid of this annoying behaviour? That's part of msec's stuff...you set a high

Re: [expert] What does msec want in 9.0?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
David Guntner writes: Well, I finally managed to get ML 9.0 installed on my box, thanks to lots of help from everyone here. However, it looks like a number of things have changed (I'm not entirely sure that they're all for the better, but that's just me :), and I'm having a number of

Re: [expert] How to stop automatic logoff?

2002-10-05 Thread KhoGuan PhuaN
2002-10-06 04:50, David Guntner writes: KhoGuan PhuaN grabbed a keyboard and wrote: If you don't think so, and want to stick to level 4 or 5(paranoid level), edit /etc/security/msec/level.local, which does not exist by default, to create a customized setting for TMOUT