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 1OuYCh-0002GB-6W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:05:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20243E0B1E; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FE5E0B23 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865E9DEBDB for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:05:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Lh0PgFwrJlMx for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:05:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537BBDEBDA for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:05:23 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:05:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <201009111024.31634.stephane@22decembre.eu> <4C8BE82E.6020500@gmail.com> <20100911212813.3757106d@scooter.muppet.show> In-Reply-To: <20100911212813.3757106d@scooter.muppet.show> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009112305.22534.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 8f83b42a-056d-4249-910e-26a760a40a6b X-Archives-Hash: bd9b6bf8513545c9db702e8f7bf0f282 On Saturday 11 September 2010 21:28:13 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > This was actually a potential risk once upon a time: Sorry to drift from the topic, but would somebody please explain to me what a potential risk is? How does it differ from a risk? (Not getting at you, Etaoin; the world is just full of woolly thinking that threatens to submerge us all. Or not thinking, in most cases.) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.