I dont want to get philosophical but isnt it doing the old fashion way what makes things fun On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Diane wrote:
Is there an application or something that makes changing and managing permissions easier instead of having to do it the old fashioned way?
Diane
----- Original Message ----- From: "wolfi"
To: "SuSE" Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] Use of Linux n6tadam wrote:
Dear Lists,
This is perhaps slightly off topic, so bear with me. :-)
I don't think so ...
I am interested to know, how many of you, actually use a non-root account to get work done. Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being logged in as root??
Well, my wife does her e-mail and all the other things as user. I told her she would not be able to destroy anything [mistakenly, of course :-))] since she is not even allowed too, and that was a good argument for Linux on our box at home. I do everything as user 'wolfi' too, but I could switch to the root account :-))
For example, most of my bash scripts that I write, require the use of certain files, which, if not ran as root, would require me to run numerous chmod/chgrp commands to get them to run.
Yes, that's a thing I really do not like: you have to change all the permissions and stuff just to be able to scan as user, and, after every update, you must do this again. If the scanner belongs to 'root/disk', why doesn't SuSE-YasT take a new user to 'disk' automatically ?? I already made a script 'update.restore' to readjust the 666 mode on all the devices (and some other things). Unluckily that's the only hint I have, write your own script for the chmod-stuff and run it once after each update.
Regards,
Thomas Adam
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