Hi Gene! Where's the problem of giving root a password? nik Am Samstag, 19. Dezember 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Saturday 19 December 2015 01:52:46 Michele Calgaro wrote: > > > On 12/17/2015 03:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > > > Out of curiosity, I tried to run ksysv from the tde menu. Can't. If > > > insists on a root pw that does not exist on this debian wheezy > > > install. A sudo -i in a konsole for me, and it runs just fine. > > > > > > This really ought to be fixed. No biggie for me, but... > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > No issues here (Debian/Stretch) with ksysv. Just typed in the root > > password and it worked flawlessly. The fact that ksysv requires root > > password is not surprising since you are playing with the system > > config. Cheers > > Michele > > > You missed the point, it demands a root pw, that on this wheezy system, > does not exist, so it cannot be launched from the menu entry by any pw > entered. The pw used for doing a sudo is not accepted. That was my > point. > > Don't put it in the menu's at all if the user cannot use his sudo to get > the root rights it needs. > > I am used to defeating petty attempts to mold linux networking to > someones idea of consistency, but which is an abject failure where one's > home network, all behind a good router, is all based on the common to > all machines /etc/hosts file, with a locally carved in granite hostname > per machine. Turning network-mangler loose in that environment is a no > networking disaster, so the first thing you have to do on the install > reboot, is sudo -i, make the entry's for that machine > in /etc/network/interfaces, chmod +i that file, then nuke the link and > make a real /etc/resolv.conf, and chmod +i that. If udev hasn't played > with things and moved eth0 to something else, thats it. Your networking > Just Works(TM) Then at your leasure you can uninstall network-mangler. > No use of its burning cpu cycles trying to tear down what you just made > immutible. > > Network-mangler might be of use in the situation where the machine is > connected directly to the access modem. Thats for folks who do not > understand the need for an isolating, natting, 20 hungry pit-bull guard > dogs for a firewall, router. Without that, a windows box is owned 30 > seconds after the cat5 is plugged in. The linux box is at risk but its > lower. I haven't worried about that since I discovered dd-wrt, which > can be reflashed into the better routers. To me, its a transparent > gateway to the net. To the net, if no port forwarding is being done, > its a cable with an address with nothing on the other end of it. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > > list messages on the web archive: > > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > > top-post: > > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstraße 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: office@...