On 06/12/2013 08:00 PM, Tim wrote:
John:
If using "su -" regularly
add this to /root/.bashrc to obtain the root prompt in red
PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "
Rejy M Cyriac:
That is a good tip ...but probably not for the colour-blind ;-)
Use inverse colours, then (black text on a
John:
> > If using "su -" regularly
> > add this to /root/.bashrc to obtain the root prompt in red
> >
> > PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h:\w]$\[\033[0m\] "
Rejy M Cyriac:
> That is a good tip ...but probably not for the colour-blind ;-)
Use inverse colours, then (black text on a coloured background)
Am 12.06.2013 01:05, schrieb Ian Malone:
> I sometimes work with quite a lot of terminals, my two rules for doing this
> are:
> 1. Drop out of root as soon as you're done.
> 2. If you can't remember the state of a given session close it and
> start a new one.
>
> - For both paying attention to
On 06/12/2013 01:54 PM, John Austin wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:22 -0400, Doug wrote:
>> On 06/11/2013 09:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 06/11/2013 05:29 PM, Tim wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed. However, it can be argued that if you know enough to do that,
>>> you should also know enough to be careful w
On 06/10/2013 09:38 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/10/2013 06:10 PM, Doug wrote:
You need to edit the sudoers file. You should find a copy that works
and make yours look like that. (Hint: you need to add a line with
your user name and the word ALL in it.) You can edit it with any
editor, or if you kn
On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:22 -0400, Doug wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 09:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 06/11/2013 05:29 PM, Tim wrote:
>
> > Agreed. However, it can be argued that if you know enough to do that,
> > you should also know enough to be careful with rm. As root, unless I'm
> > deleting exac
On 06/11/2013 09:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/11/2013 05:29 PM, Tim wrote:
Agreed. However, it can be argued that if you know enough to do that,
you should also know enough to be careful with rm. As root, unless I'm
deleting exactly one file, I use ls first to see exactly what I'm going
to d
On 06/11/2013 05:31 PM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Matthew Miller sent:
The prompt should be different for auth-as-self vs. auth-as-root.
Sometimes a prompt is a rather vague you must authenticate type of
phrase.
Once it was pointed out to me, I looked, and it did ask f
On 06/11/2013 05:29 PM, Tim wrote:
Never rely on that, not to mention that there are plenty of other
commands that you can foolishly hose a system with. And you may not get
that alias if you use one of the alternative shells.
Agreed. However, it can be argued that if you know enough to do tha
Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Matthew Miller sent:
> The prompt should be different for auth-as-self vs. auth-as-root.
Sometimes a prompt is a rather vague you must authenticate type of
phrase.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2
Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
> there's a reason that by default rm for root is aliased to rm -i.
Never rely on that, not to mention that there are plenty of other
commands that you can foolishly hose a system with. And you may not get
that alias if you use one of the altern
On 06/11/2013 04:05 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
- For both paying attention to the #/$ prompt and CWD display are
helpful. That's what I check whenever I switch to a given terminal
(also useful to know which machine you're logged into). Arguably
there's more potential for confusion if you normally only
On 11 June 2013 20:03, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
>>> When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
>>> return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as
>>> root.
>>
>> That's
On 06/11/2013 02:11 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Here I think you're talking about the policykit dialogs in the desktop,
right?
The prompt should be different for auth-as-self vs. auth-as-root.
Yes, it was. However, I'd been in the habit of putting root's password
into those dialog boxes for so
ib64/mozilla/plugins,the result is username
> is not in sudoers folder,this will be reported : What should I do ?
> --
When I went through this, I just added my user to the sudoers file to
fix it. Visudo is probably best, as Doug suggested earlier.
Richard
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:54:21PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I tried putting myself into wheel once when I did a clean install.
> I found it very off-putting, to say the least, to find that giving
> the root password when prompted (or so I thought) didn't work
> because the system was expecting *my*
On 06/11/2013 01:23 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Or, on Fedora, add yourself to the "wheel" group (and log out and in again).
You can do this with "User Manager" tool in gnome, or with
gpasswd wheel -a username
as root or via sudo from another user with sudo privs.
I tried putting myself into
input the command of sudo
> >cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins,the result is username
> >is not in sudoers folder,this will be reported : What should I do ?
> You need to edit the sudoers file. You should find a copy that works
> and make yours look like that. (H
On 06/11/2013 12:32 PM, Joe Zeff issued this missive:
On 06/11/2013 12:03 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
return to the computer, you'll probably forge
On 06/11/2013 12:03 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as
root.
That's why you either l
On 06/11/2013 01:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
>> When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
>> return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as
>> root.
>
> That's why you either log out from root or close the term
On 06/11/2013 08:01 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
When you're done with whatever you did and you get distracted then
return to the computer, you'll probably forget you are logged in as
root.
That's why you either log out from root or close the terminal as soon as
you're done doing root stuph.
--
u
On 06/11/2013 06:31 AM, Tim wrote:
Once the command finishes, your terminal is left with your unprivileged
logon, so there's less chance of serious mistakes happening by accident
(e.g. badly wildcarded "rm" commands), if you're going to keep that
terminal open.
If you only need to run one comma
On 06/11/2013 01:52 AM, Fred Erickson wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:10:34 -0400
...snip
You need to edit the sudoers file. You should find a copy that works
and make yours look like that. (Hint: you need to add a line with
your user name and the word ALL in it.) You can edit it with any
On 06/11/2013 08:31 AM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 10 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
>> To me, sudo is a fine tool if you want to give access to a few admin
>> tools to people who don't (and shouldn't) know the root password.
>> However, I can't see the point of using it if you're the person wh
Allegedly, on or about 10 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
> To me, sudo is a fine tool if you want to give access to a few admin
> tools to people who don't (and shouldn't) know the root password.
> However, I can't see the point of using it if you're the person who
> installed Linux and created the root
Allegedly, on or about 11 June 2013, Lingxian Guo sent:
> About installing the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player for Firefox,I
> know the file of libflashplayer.so should be copied to
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugin.
That approach for installing the Flash player is about the worst way to
manage it. Y
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:10:34 -0400
...snip
> You need to edit the sudoers file. You should find a copy that works
> and make yours look like that. (Hint: you need to add a line with
> your user name and the word ALL in it.) You can edit it with any
> editor, or if you know vi, then you can
On 06/10/2013 06:10 PM, Doug wrote:
You need to edit the sudoers file. You should find a copy that works
and make yours look like that. (Hint: you need to add a line with
your user name and the word ALL in it.) You can edit it with any
editor, or if you know vi, then you can use visudo. You will
result is username
is not in sudoers folder,this will be reported : What should I do ?
You need to edit the sudoers file. You should find a copy that works
and make yours look like that. (Hint: you need to add a line with
your user name and the word ALL in it.) You can edit it with any
editor, or if
About installing the plugin of the Adobe Flash Player for Firefox,I know
the file of libflashplayer.so should be copied to
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugin.By Terminal,after I input the command of sudo
cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins,the result is username
is not in sudoers folder,this
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