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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 03:08:28 +0400
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@....openwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Owl-based desktop environment
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:04:08PM +0400, Grigoriy Strokin wrote:
[...]
> 1) Which RPM set with a wide range of useful applications
> should I use?
> I tried downloading Fedora Core 6 i386 RPMs, but they require
> GLIBC-2.4. Then I tried
> rpm --replacefiles --nodeps -U glibc-2.5-3.i386.rpm
> but then PAM modules stopped working and it was even impossible to
> login. So I downgraded to libc-2.3.6.so. Should I use RPMs from
> older versions of Fedora?
Owl-2.0 is closer to RHEL4 and FC3 from compatibility point of view.
> 3) Later I used sudo, but now I know it is not a good idea
> to use su/sudo to root as a non-privileged user.
> So, what is the right way to get admin's privileges while working
> locally in X Window as grg?
> ssh r_grg@...alhost ?
> What about using passwords?
I would say that user->root privilege escalation is not secure in general,
no matter how do you gain privs. Consider login as privileged user using
new virtual console.
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ldv
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