From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mgf41-0008Ir-5F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:30:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FA0AE0A00; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A0D9E0A00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2009 18:40:04 -0000 Received: from p54850030.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.0.48] by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 27 Aug 2009 20:40:04 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Sx7x5s0mSL8/UQlhpPmoeBapg9ax91m8C4lra+e S4ZoyquceJxcBb Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:40:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:40:03 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fc-cache Message-ID: <20090827184003.GA5873@solfire> References: <20090825222627.GB6165@solfire> <94C385DF-141A-4D14-831C-0B5657DB8927@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <94C385DF-141A-4D14-831C-0B5657DB8927@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.57 X-Archives-Salt: 7076fd8c-44d6-4f67-862e-12039dfe92d6 X-Archives-Hash: c19b1fcd0c420675d37bd976531145fd Stroller [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: 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