[clue-admin] User setup for "member" accounts

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:18:51 -0700
Collins Richey wrote:

> Can I do yum from sudo?

Yes, that should work just fine. If not, 'sudo su -' and you're root.

> don't want to get into "adding garbage software to the server" since
> I'm not the admin. What's your opinion. Should Bob do this? I'm quite
> comfortable with screwing up my own system and fixing it, but ...

I think that as long as we post messages saying what we're doing, that
shouldn't be a huge issue. Particularly when we're hoping to get a lot
done in a short time, it's a lot of stuff for one person to take care of.

And messing the system up is one reason why I'm in favor of always using
the package manager. RPM is usually really good about creating "rpm-save"
or "rpm-orig" versions of config files that get changed as a result of
installing or upgrading things. (I always make my own backups anyway.)
Plus, removal is easy.

I don't know anything about scponly, but here's another similar thing:
http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/index.shtml

Ah, choices.

jed
-- 
http://s88369986.onlinehome.us/freedomsight/
Key fingerprint = B027 FEFB 4281 CC72 67D1  4237 F2D0 D356 077A A30E
... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier