Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 13:41, Pascal Bleser wrote: >> Alexey Eremenko wrote: >>> Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because >>> you're still bound by Linux-user security privileges) >>> >>> But it wi

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:27, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 21:02]: > > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 17:52, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 15:09 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > > I really fail to see a down-side, with the possib

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-30-07 21:02]: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 17:52, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 15:09 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > I really fail to see a down-side, with the possible exception of > > > the fact that there are sometimes multiple

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 17:52, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 15:09 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > I really fail to see a down-side, with the possible exception of > > the fact that there are sometimes multiple commands with the same > > name. Whois springs to mind. I'm not

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-05-30 at 15:09 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > I really fail to see a down-side, with the possible exception of the > fact that there are sometimes multiple commands with the same name. > Whois springs to mind. I'm not sure what

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-30 Thread Sid Boyce
Keith Goggin wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:45, Ladislav Slezak wrote: Keith Goggin wrote: [...] I created testvm.qcow (20GB) OK but then couldn't execute the next step.. # qemu -sda /home/kg/Desktop/openSUSE-10.3Alpha4-DVD-x86_64.iso -boot d qemu: invalid option -- '-sda' Note both my HDD

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Druid
You must do this with care. My question is why. You could do this with care, and waste man-hours doing a silly thing that will result in no benefit, or we could go work in other stuff, right? Make things easier? The people who should be messing with that in a root shell should know what they sh

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 15:00, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > On 5/31/07, Ricardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I think this only makes sense if we go through the > > sudo route, like Ubuntu. > >Otherwise, just symlink from /bin. > > Ohh yes, symlinking from /sbin to /bin can also sol

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 13:41, Pascal Bleser wrote: > Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because > > you're still bound by Linux-user security privileges) > > > > But it will make our systems easier to use. So I vote for making it > > the default

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 5/31/07, Ricardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, I think this only makes sense if we go through the sudo route, like Ubuntu. Otherwise, just symlink from /bin. Ohh yes, symlinking from /sbin to /bin can also solve those problems, of inaccessible utilities. -- -Alexey Eremenko

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Ricardo Cruz
Qua, 2007-05-30 às 22:41 +0200, Pascal Bleser escreveu: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because > > you're still bound by Linux-user security privileges) > > > > But it will make our syste

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because > you're still bound by Linux-user security privileges) > > But it will make our systems easier to use. So I vote for making it the > default. And it breaks

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3a4 software management :(

2007-05-30 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-27 15:10]: > > (During installation:) The yast boot loader module is still buggy. For > root = /dev/md2 it suggests to put the boot loader on the root partition > - I doubt that works. WHen I tick MBR, both MBR and "root partition" are > ticked, so I

Re: [opensuse-factory] SLP daemon

2007-05-30 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:28:10PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Mon 28 May 2007 06:08:38 NZST +1200, Michael Schroeder wrote: > > > tcpdump -x -s 1024 -v -i eth0 port 427 > > Thanks Michael. I can't get it to go. > > As a sidenote, slptool findsrvtypes gives useful output, but putting

Re: [opensuse-factory] pmwiki

2007-05-30 Thread Druid
It's GPL, use no database (flat file only), so it's probably more fitted for small sites, but it's also extremely configurable and can be very cute (here my LUG web site http://www.culte.org/pmwiki/?n=Site.StyleOptions?action=set&setcolor=CULTe) can we include it? I know it's very easy to instal

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-30 Thread Keith Goggin
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:45, Ladislav Slezak wrote: > Keith Goggin wrote: > [...] > I created testvm.qcow (20GB) OK but then couldn't execute the next step.. > > > # qemu -sda /home/kg/Desktop/openSUSE-10.3Alpha4-DVD-x86_64.iso -boot d > > > > qemu: invalid option -- '-sda' > > > > Note both my HD

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-30 Thread Sid Boyce
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-20 at 03:40 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: I also thought that VMWare had gone opensource, I tested a number of their 6.0 Workstation Betas, now I find the 6.0 release is for purchase only, so I'll leave that for th

[opensuse-factory] pmwiki

2007-05-30 Thread jdd
Hello, I use now for some days a very good wiki, namely PmWiki (http://www.pmwiki.org) AFAIK it's not on openSUSE and it's a shame, it should be. It's GPL, use no database (flat file only), so it's probably more fitted for small sites, but it's also extremely configurable and can be very cu

Re: [opensuse-factory] Making Basic Utilities work under normal user

2007-05-30 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Adding /sbin/ to user's $PATH doesn't lower your security. (because you're still bound by Linux-user security privileges) But it will make our systems easier to use. So I vote for making it the default. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" ---

[opensuse-factory] hylafax + ddclient

2007-05-30 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Package hylafax is missing from 10.3a4. Is this permanent? It's a required package for all those unfortunate enough not to have ISDN in their country. Ok so dialup Internet is on the way out, but faxing is still quite common. I'm afraid sendfax is not a viable alternative as it doesn't support fax

Re: [opensuse-factory] SLP daemon

2007-05-30 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Mon 28 May 2007 06:08:38 NZST +1200, Michael Schroeder wrote: > tcpdump -x -s 1024 -v -i eth0 port 427 Thanks Michael. I can't get it to go. As a sidenote, slptool findsrvtypes gives useful output, but putting one of those lines at the end of slptool findsrvs never gives me anything. I've

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-20 at 03:40 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: > I also thought that VMWare had gone opensource, I tested a number of their 6.0 > Workstation Betas, now I find the 6.0 release is for purchase only, so I'll > leave that for the Corporates with

Re: [opensuse-factory] Command disclosure

2007-05-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El 2007-05-29 a las 19:38 -0500, Donn Washburn escribió: > > > Each medium contains checksum in the ISO9660 application area. The > > > checksum is added by "tagmedia" (see checkmedia package). > > > > Only for "SUSE installation media", AFAIK. > >

Re: [opensuse-factory] YaST2 command line

2007-05-30 Thread Jiří Suchomel
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 02:01, James Tremblay wrote: > would someone help me figure out why > yast2 add-on cd:/// does not work? > the command returns "there is no interface for that module available" > > man yast2 says that yast2 add-on longhelp should give me more info, but it > starts the gui "