Re: Akonadi as Root

2013-05-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 30/05/13 09:57, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Kali is a modified Debian wheezy. It only has a root account. Sounds like kali is a rather specialised distro, and should only really be used as necessary for its intended purpose of penetration testing and security research. Better to use a more conventional

Re: Akonadi as Root

2013-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Kali is a modified Debian wheezy. It only has a root account. Why not creating a user account? # useradd doe # passwd doe # mkdir /home/doe # chown doe:users /home/doe You then perhaps have to add the user to groups and to set security policies and to do this you perhaps need to install so

Re: Akonadi as Root

2013-05-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
t;Kali Linux (formerly known as BackTrack) is a Debian-based distribution > >> with a collection of security and forensics tools. It features timely > >> security updates, support for the ARM architecture, a choice of four > >> popular desktop environments, and seamless u

Re: Akonadi as Root

2013-05-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
r the ARM architecture, a choice of four >> popular desktop environments, and seamless upgrades to newer versions." >> >> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kali > That still doesn't explain why you need to run Akonadi as root. > > Nor does it

Re: Akonadi as Root

2013-05-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
li Linux (formerly known as BackTrack) is a Debian-based distribution > with a collection of security and forensics tools. It features timely > security updates, support for the ARM architecture, a choice of four > popular desktop environments, and seamless upgrades to newer versions."

Re: Akonadi as Root

2013-05-28 Thread staticsafe
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:19:36AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 22:37 -0500, Patrick wrote: > > First I want to say: do not make comments/statements about running as > > root, I am running Kali linux. > > > > Now that that is said, I have figured out that it has to do with >

Re: Akonadi as Root

2013-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 22:37 -0500, Patrick wrote: > First I want to say: do not make comments/statements about running as > root, I am running Kali linux. > > Now that that is said, I have figured out that it has to do with > mysqld. it said something about security section of the manual. I > foun

Akonadi as Root

2013-05-27 Thread Patrick
First I want to say: /do //*not*//make comments/statements about running as root/, I am running Kali linux. Now that that is said, I have figured out that it has to do with mysqld. it said something about security section of the manual. I found this