Prev: Building GLIBC-2.3.5
Next: Problems with lilo on dualboot PC with SATA drives
From: TooManyPutters on 15 Sep 2005 16:49

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
news:lt2pv2-004.ln1(a)news.it.uc3m.es...
> TooManyPutters <RainyDay(a)theswamp.com> wrote:
>> As the original poster, I did manage to set up automatic login, and I do
>> sit
>> behind a firewall. I may not have phrased my query correctly, but I just
>> don't understand how someone seeking help can be called "crazy" and
>> talking
>> in "psychobabble".
>
> Because that's what it IS! Do you have a problem with being told the
> truth? You spouted nonsense, including a fair sprinkling of buzzwords,
> in no semantic relation to each other that could be discerned by me!
>
> So please stop doing that. Talk slwly and sensically.
>
>
>> Just a cheap shot as far as I was concerned.
>
> No, it's not a cheap shot.
>
>> Why attack
>> someone.
>
> You're not being "attacked"! Where do you get that from? Do you feel
> whips across your body? Cease making drivelling noises and get your act
> together ahnd talk coherently. That's all! What would YOU say to
> somebody who came at you saying something like
>
> Oh, now I see that my idea about coaches was all funny because I
> thought the white side had the roses in, and now I see that I should
> have understood that the name of the wheel is what really makes the
> difference to whether or not I can rehash the thimble with success.
>
> I think you'd say "pull yourself together man, cease talking drivel,
> and start talking sense". How do you interpret it any other way!
>
>> Isn't this group here to help? (Enough said.)
>
> No, of course not! It's not a helpdesk! Did you see a sign out saying
> "soothing drinks avalable for free"? If you are going to get some help
> you are going to at least prove that you can speak in a straight line
> FIRST. Otherwise you are just a pain.
>
> The security message was quite clear - if you take away your front door
> because you don't like to have to use a key, don't you see a problem?
> What is unclear about that?
>
> Now, you can set up a console-specific login utility that will not
> require a password, but that only makes it unavailable to net snoopers,
> not driveby cleaner-ladies. If on the other hand you do what YOU
> suggested and remove the password, then anybody can get in from
> anywhere.
>
> What is unclear?
>
>
> Peter

The part about the drive-by cleaning lady. Is she using a wireless laptop?
It's been recommended here that I just ignore you. Bye!


From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 15 Sep 2005 21:02

"TooManyPutters" <RainyDay(a)TheSwamp.com> wrote in message
news:u7lWe.777$ua.22085(a)twister.southeast.rr.com...

> The part about the drive-by cleaning lady. Is she using a wireless
> laptop? It's been recommended here that I just ignore you. Bye!

I did warn you.....


From: Thorn on 16 Sep 2005 12:42
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:49:30 GMT, TooManyPutters Cried: Read These Runes!:
>
> The part about the drive-by cleaning lady. Is she using a wireless laptop?
> It's been recommended here that I just ignore you. Bye!

Think twice about doing that. Peter's just urging you to think.

Thorn
--
Be different: conform.
From: Rick Moen on 19 Sep 2005 17:16
Thorn <Raptor(a)etruscan.warrior> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:49:30 GMT, TooManyPutters Cried: Read These Runes!:
>>
>> The part about the drive-by cleaning lady. Is she using a wireless laptop?
>> It's been recommended here that I just ignore you. Bye!
>
> Think twice about doing that. Peter's just urging you to think.

Indeed he was. TooManyPutters, you should stop and consider that Peter
took the time to compose and post some valuable and well-considered
advice. Refusing to listen to him because you don't like his tone is
seizing the booby-prize. He put wisdom and care into that post, and, if
you ignore it, you lose. The people who _didn't_ care are the ones who
didn't bother to respond to your query (which included me, until this
moment).

The concern about autologin mechanisms of various sorts is that it might
be subverted by someone. If you're not willing to consider possible
threats, you shouldn't connect computers to the Internet.

There are several different ways of making a Linux (or other Unix)
computer autologin. I suspect that this thread became a little confused
because the early part of the discussion suffered considerable vagueness
concerning which of those sundry ways you proposed to use.

What you _probably_ had in mind was one of the safer ways of doing that,
namely the autologin feature of certain display managers such as GNOME's
gdm or KDE's kdm. That type of autologin would not be subject to abuse
from remote locations, because the X Window System display engine
("server") on modern Linux systems doesn't accept connections from
remote locations.

Thus, all you'd really have to worry about is people physically in a
position to walk up to your graphical terminal, and use your computer as
if they were you. (This would include people who walk away with your
Linux laptops.) If that is a reasonable risk for you, then there's
nothing wrong with enabling autologin -- and, if you want, you can
also set a screensaver to run and require a short password for access to
the running X Window System session if you've stepped away for a few
minutes.

--
Cheers, Mark Moraes: "Usenet is not a right."
Rick Moen Edward Vielmetti: "Usenet is a right, a left, a jab,
rick(a)linuxmafia.com and a sharp uppercut to the jaw.
The postman hits! You have new mail."
First  |  Prev  | 
Pages: 1 2 3 4
Prev: Building GLIBC-2.3.5
Next: Problems with lilo on dualboot PC with SATA drives