Re: [gentoo-user] fc-cache

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> [09-08-27 20:28]:
> 
> On 25 Aug 2009, at 23:26, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >...
> >I use Icewm and X.org as desktop environment.
> >
> >Ending my work with a command like
> >
> >   sudo halt
> >
> >from a terminal window results in no problem at all.
> >
> >But:
> >
> >When I do something like:
> >
> >   aunpack mysourceproject.tar.7z; cd mysourceproject; \
> >   ./configure && make && make install; sudo halt
> >
> >switch off my monitor and go to sleep, cause this will run for an
> >hour, and start my box next morning again, all fonts, which are
> >defined via xorg.conf are displayed in a very tine shape.
> 
> Um.... sorry if this is a dumb question, but does the `sudo halt` 
> actually run? Here that would be sitting waiting for me to enter a 
> password (but your /etc/sudoers may be configured  differently).
> 
> Stroller.
> 
> 

Hi

There are no dumb questions, Stroller, there are only dumb answers...
:)

You can configure /etc/sudoers to accept "sudo" without password and
execute a certain command via sudo with root rights or others.

On machines used by many users and or directly connected to a backbone
this may or is a security hole.

On my machine I am alone and sudoers is setup only to accept
passwordless "sudos" from me (my username)

The according line looks like this:
<my username>        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

Which means: accept any command without password compined with sudo.

This may or may not a discussable setting, though...

On the other side: A person who is able to crack my router and gain root
rights on my machine will not be stopped by sudoers-settings.
And the possibility to be able to crack a password is based on the
knowledge/tools to the attacker and the password but is not based
on the kind of user who owns it, whether it is a root password or
a users password does not matter...

Only my to photons...your light might be brighter... :o)

HTH!
Have a nice <time of day you currently have> ;)
Keep hacking!
mcc




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