Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
Yes, I really want one of these. I have an 18 month old Mac Mini and
have been very happy with it. I'm looking at the Server version for
$999. I haven''t used the optical drive in a year so I am pretty
happy going for the model that has the two hard drives. I am
Dave Tomlin wrote:
So what distro are you guys using? It seems that most of you are
using Ubuntu. I was an Ubuntu fan thru 9.04, but am now using Fedora
13. So far its been great.
Debian. Very stable. Tried Ubuntu on my laptop, but found little
problems that just drove me nuts, so I
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:21:16 -0500, Perkins, Jerry je...@jperkins.us
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Arch Linux, Sabayoon 32/64 bit kde4 and Gnome, VM's OBsd, FBsd,,
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On 06/16/2010 09:07 AM, ./aal wrote:
I used RH5.0 till I moved to Mandrake5.1 and stayed there till Mandriva(ew)
I started with Mandrake 6.0 or 6.5, somewhere in there, and I'm still
using primarily Mandriva 2010. However, I do have a box using Kubuntu
Studio. (Ubuntu + Kubuntu + Ubuntu
I am still using Ubuntu 8.04LTS ... It has a few issues, but in
working well overall.
Once 10.xLTS comes out I may need to upgrade or find another distro.
I tend to run old hardware, so code bloat kills me, and 8.04LTS is about the
right mix of meat and 'cream' for me.
I just looked, and
On 06/16/2010 12:01 PM, Robert Wohlfarth wrote:
I've not seen a difference between Ubuntu's GUI and CLI. Both prompt for a
password when performing administrative functions. On the back end, the GUI
uses sudo too.
Perhaps I've not been clear, let me try again...
When using the CLI su
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:56 PM, JMJ roadr...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't mean to make a big deal of this, I'm just whining. Most Ubuntu
users are surely happy with it as is and never need the root account. I,
however, just don't see the need for this departure from the usual way of
doing
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I don't mean to make a big deal of this, I'm just
whining. Most Ubuntu users are surely happy with it as
is and never need the root account. I, however, just don't
see the need for this departure from the usual way of doing
things.
They
To get you where you want to be ( su - ) when using Ubuntu try:
$ sudo -i
your password
Good one - I always have just used sudo bash. Hmm, bash is easier
to type than -i.
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On 06/16/2010 02:21 PM, Robert Wohlfarth wrote:
The cool
thing about unix (and Linux specifically) is that there's more than one way.
The operating system works for you - not the other way around.
Exactly! [thumbs up]
JMJ
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:01 PM, JMJ roadr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm... perhaps part of the reason that I don't see the point in how Ubuntu
has implemented root/su/sudo/etc. is that I assume that sudo provides the
same functionality as su. I'll be researching that now. :-)
OK, I think I'm
Sudo can be VERY flexible when properly configured and good security
is done on machines.
In the past I have helped set up machines so some users can do some
things, other users can issue other commands or run scripts, all
dependent on the groups to which they belong. At least in the past
the
On 06/16/2010 05:20 PM, JMJ wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:01 PM, JMJroadr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm... perhaps part of the reason that I don't see the point in how Ubuntu
has implemented root/su/sudo/etc. is that I assume that sudo provides the
same functionality as su. I'll be researching
Don't fight the force, Luke. One of those temporary root accesses is:
sudo su -
which essentially logs you in as root without having an actual root
account to go about rooting. Now, the knowledgeable amongst us may point
out that this obscurity is not adding any major security to your
On 06/16/2010 07:22 PM, Evan Brown wrote:
please don't sudo su -
please use sudo -s
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http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-616026.html
Would you mind expounding as to why??
Howard
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Would you mind expounding as to why??
tested on my machine, with ps results cut down of course...
sudo su -
root 8074 1.3 0.5 4064 1508 pts/0S20:26 0:00 su -
root 8080 1.0 0.6 4204 1768 pts/0S20:26 0:00 -su
sudo -s
root 8029 8.0 1.2 5616
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