Re: [SLUG] xorg woes

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jan 21 2006 - 17:25:12 EST

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Sick Twist wrote:

>> From: Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
>> Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>> To: slug@nks.net
>> Subject: Re: [SLUG] xorg woes
>> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:27:57 -0500 (EST)
>>
>> A passwordless root account where sudo can be called for any purpose sounds
>> like a very bad idea. Heck, why not "sudo ifdown" or "sudo deluser"? Any
>> program worth the bits it's printed on would ask for a password if one is
>> required.
>
> It's not a passwordless root account per se, the root account is not enabled.
> Meaning that no one is able to log-in with it until it is explicitly turned
> on (which seems to be a good idea). It is a lot different than a Windows
> administrator account with a blank password that anyone can access.

Well, if an environment running as you can su no-questions-asked at any
time, what's to stop you from doing the same thing, without the environment?
And if the environment runs as root, why should it think that task A is
worthy of extra privileges, but task B isn't? How's it to tell them apart?

>> Are virtual packages those indicated by an orange "Ubuntu" circle in
>> Synaptic?
>
> The packages with the Ubuntu logo next to them in Synaptic indicate packages
> that are in the "main" section of the Ubuntu repository and thus are
> officially supported (get more testing, receive security updates, etc).

Gotcha. Is there some magic option to apt-* to make it cough up a list of
installed packages?

(I need to haul my .signature-randomizer off the backup.) 

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