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John Hasler wrote: > Doug writes: > > I'm not sure how you limit the superuser ability. > > By configuring exactly which commands each user is permitted to execute. Perhaps an example sudoers configuration would help people: User_Alias HOSTMASTERS = trent Host_Alias DNSSERVERS = someh

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Doug writes: > I'm not sure how you limit the superuser ability. By configuring exactly which commands each user is permitted to execute. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

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On 10/25/2013 02:31 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Doug wrote: >> I know Debian is different, > > Most of us say that in a good way. :-) > >> but the distro I use and the man page for sudo, I believe, expects >> there to be a root password, that sudo will expect when invoked. I first encountered sudo

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Doug wrote: > I know Debian is different, Most of us say that in a good way. :-) > but the distro I use and the man page for sudo, I believe, expects > there to be a root password, that sudo will expect when invoked. The most normal and traditional use of sudo is that sudo will expect the user'

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Hi. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:11:51PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > I don't understand how a user whithout the root password, and only > > his own password could use sudo, which seems to be how Debian is set > > up. > > > Not just Debian. > And it's by using the "NOPASSWD" option (with, as B

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On 25/10/13 13:03, Doug wrote: > On 10/24/2013 09:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> Reading the list for a while, I won the impression that Debian by >>> default now comes with sudo enabled. >> >> It is one of the two possible choices that can be made during the >> installation.

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Doug writes: > The main purpose of sudo, as I understand it, is to prevent a user > from opening up su and then leaving it open--sudo will close after a > selected interval of non use. The main purpose of sudo is to make it possible to give some users restricted access to some commands that would

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On 10/24/2013 09:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Reading the list for a while, I won the impression that Debian by >> default now comes with sudo enabled. > > It is one of the two possible choices that can be made during the > installation. There isn't a default. > > The user e

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Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Reading the list for a while, I won the impression that Debian by > default now comes with sudo enabled. It is one of the two possible choices that can be made during the installation. There isn't a default. The user either chooses to enter a root password and also a user a

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On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 17:31 +0200, François Patte wrote: > > libavformat.so.52 > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/amd64/libavformat53/filelist Debian http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/libavformat53 Arch Linux $ pacman

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On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 17:31 +0200, François Patte wrote: > OK! BUT audacity requires a libavformat.so.52 file to export a file in > wma and aac format. Where can I find such a file?? > > I can see (google search) many people with the same problem and no > answer... Please sent requests to the lis

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:35:49AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/10/13 00:27, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:56:01PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> should have been:- > >> $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bashrc > > > > This works better as: > >

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On 25/10/13 00:27, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:56:01PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> should have been:- >> $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bashrc > > This works better as: > > function s() { > su -l root -c "$*" > } > export -f s > > Saves an extra " >

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Hi. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:56:01PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > should have been:- > $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bashrc This works better as: function s() { su -l root -c "$*" } export -f s Saves an extra " Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

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On 25/10/13 00:00, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> >> I don't do default[*1] installs. Certainly "expert" install mode gives a >> choice (choices are good) - regardless of whether people use sudo or not >> root *should* have a different password to any o

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > I don't do default[*1] installs. Certainly "expert" install mode gives a > choice (choices are good) - regardless of whether people use sudo or not > root *should* have a different password to any other user. > > But of course it's the sy

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On 24/10/13 23:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Scott, > > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:04 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> "su -c" isn't too difficult for many, and if the extra keystrokes are a >> problem:- >> $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bash rc should have been:- $ echo "alia

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On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 14:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:04 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > "su -c" isn't too difficult for many, and if the extra keystrokes are a > > problem:- > > $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bash rc > > then you can use "s" instead of

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Hi Scott, On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:04 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Worse, and *very* common with, um, "users" of > a "popular" derivative of Debian is "%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" which > requires no password for sudo(sigh). Ubuntu definitively made some steps into a wrong direction, but AFAIK all

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Hi Ralf On 24/10/13 22:42, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 20:43 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> su -c "apt-get -st deb-multimedia install audacity" > > Reading the list for a while, I was under the impression that Debian by > default now comes with sudo enabled. > > > Could be, I

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On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 20:43 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > su -c "apt-get -st deb-multimedia install audacity" Reading the list for a while, I won the impression that Debian by default now comes with sudo enabled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:24:07 +0200, François Patte wrote: Le 24/10/2013 00:15, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 00:03 +0200, François Patte wrote: It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg supports, is that true? and why? Perhaps because Debian prefer

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On 24/10/13 20:24, François Patte wrote: > Le 24/10/2013 00:15, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : >> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 00:03 +0200, François Patte wrote: >>> It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg >>> supports, is that true? and why? >> >> Perhaps because Debian prefers libav

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Resending to list On 24/10/13 20:21, François Patte wrote: > Le 24/10/2013 09:53, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 24/10/13 18:13, Δημήτρης Παπαδάκης wrote: >> >> > >> >> It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg >> supports, is that true? and why? >> >> Yes i

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Le 24/10/2013 00:15, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 00:03 +0200, François Patte wrote: >> It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg >> supports, is that true? and why? > > Perhaps because Debian prefers libav over ffmpeg. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li

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On 24/10/13 18:13, Δημήτρης Παπαδάκης wrote: > > Is ffmpeg stil; debeloped? > Yes. http://www.ffmpeg.org/ > Στις 24 Οκτ 2013 1:04 π.μ., ο χρήστης "François Patte" > > έγραψε: > > Le 23/10/2013 11:00, François Patte a écrit : > > Bonjour, >

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Is ffmpeg stil; debeloped? Στις 24 Οκτ 2013 1:04 π.μ., ο χρήστης "François Patte" < francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> έγραψε: > Le 23/10/2013 11:00, François Patte a écrit : > > Bonjour, > > > > Is there a debian package to install FFmepg libraries for audacity? > > > > I need to export some au

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On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 00:03 +0200, François Patte wrote: > It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg > supports, is that true? and why? Perhaps because Debian prefers libav over ffmpeg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libav#Fork_from_FFmpeg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

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Le 23/10/2013 11:00, François Patte a écrit : > Bonjour, > > Is there a debian package to install FFmepg libraries for audacity? > > I need to export some audio files to this format. > > Thank you. > It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg supports, is that true? an