Re: /sbin in root's $PATH?

2000-06-14 Thread Chris Abbey
At 17:10 6/14/00 -0400, Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE wrote: >If you configure sudo to let them create new users, what prevents them >from creating a new user with UID=0? Let me guess that linuxconf and >the rest of such administrative tools have been designed to be run by >root, and, as such, haven

Re: rawhide: rpm-3 to rpm-4?

2000-06-14 Thread Rudi Chiarito
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 06:49:04PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > How is one supposed to upgrade to packages built with rpm-4.0 using > > rpm-3.x?, especially rpm-4.0. Any binaries of v 4.0 available somewhere? > /RedHat/instimage/usr/bin/rpm is there, at least. [root@ciccillo yax]# ncftpget -

Kernel capabilities bug

2000-06-14 Thread Damien Miller
Any news on when updated kernel packages will be made available to fix the capabilities bug in kernels > 2.2.16? There are several bugzilla entries without any comment from Redhat. -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/

Re: rawhide: rpm-3 to rpm-4?

2000-06-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Rudi Chiarito wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:01:49PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > How is one supposed to upgrade to packages built with rpm-4.0 using > > rpm-3.x?, especially rpm-4.0. Any binaries of v 4.0 available somewhere? > > I was dumb enough to try also rpm-4*.src.rpm and rpm-3.

Re: rawhide: rpm-3 to rpm-4?

2000-06-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Svante Signell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > How is one supposed to upgrade to packages built with rpm-4.0 using > rpm-3.x?, especially rpm-4.0. Any binaries of v 4.0 available somewhere? /RedHat/instimage/usr/bin/rpm is there, at least. Bill -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: rawhide: rpm-3 to rpm-4?

2000-06-14 Thread Rudi Chiarito
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:01:49PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > How is one supposed to upgrade to packages built with rpm-4.0 using > rpm-3.x?, especially rpm-4.0. Any binaries of v 4.0 available somewhere? I faced the very same problem this morning (I was trying to get the latest openjade SRPM

rawhide: rpm-3 to rpm-4?

2000-06-14 Thread Svante Signell
How is one supposed to upgrade to packages built with rpm-4.0 using rpm-3.x?, especially rpm-4.0. Any binaries of v 4.0 available somewhere? > rpm -q rpm rpm-3.0.4-7 > rpm -qp /mnt/sdc3/rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM query of /mnt

Re: /sbin in root's $PATH?

2000-06-14 Thread Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE
If you configure sudo to let them create new users, what prevents them from creating a new user with UID=0? Let me guess that linuxconf and the rest of such administrative tools have been designed to be run by root, and, as such, haven't undergone the kind of security audit that would let you be

Re: Code Crusader: segmentation fault

2000-06-14 Thread Angelo Neacsu
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: > I just installed Code Crusader using the source rpm from the contrib > directory, and it gives me a segmentation fault as soon as I try to run > it. I didn't experience any problems during the installation > though. Anybody can suggest a fix for this?

Code Crusader: segmentation fault

2000-06-14 Thread Nitebirdz
I just installed Code Crusader using the source rpm from the contrib directory, and it gives me a segmentation fault as soon as I try to run it. I didn't experience any problems during the installation though. Anybody can suggest a fix for this? -- Nitebirdz http://www.linuxnovice.org Tips,

Re: /sbin in root's $PATH?

2000-06-14 Thread Nitebirdz
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, John Summerfield wrote: > > On Standard RHL, one has to be root to create a user. > Being root, one can also read/write any file on the system, install new > software, reconfigure sendmail. > > As a professional maintaining Linux systems, I'd not want this. > > If sudo al