[mythtv-users] Starting up mythfrontend automatically?
Piers Kittel
mythtv at biased.org
Tue Dec 27 19:57:07 EST 2005
Heh. Fair enough.
OK playing the devil's advocate now...
If I disable the need of the password, isn't that a lot more dangerous
than just enabling anyone to use halt - I mean, now anyone can be "root"
without needing a password? Someone malciously invoking halt can be
annoying but at the end of the day, it just turns off the computer
without destroying anything?
Also if I pass the password, wouldn't it be viewable in mythtv setup? I
mean, if someone browses my setup screens (unlikely I guess, but bear
with me) and spots the password and goes "Ooooh!" ?
I'm sure the answers to those 2 are in the man pages for sudo I guess? :)
Cheers - Piers
Jason W. wrote:
> You obviously haven't read "man sudo" then. :)
>
> You can
> 1) disable the need for password
> 2) pass the password in on standard in (in the command string).
>
> Sudo is the easiest (and safest) way to do what you want.
>
> P.S. you will also want to read "man visudo".
>
> Piers Kittel wrote:
>
>>Yeah thought of that, but don't you need to type in a password anyway?
>>
>>Cheers - Piers
>>
>>Kim Wall wrote:
>>
>>>Piers Kittel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Just need to figure out how to power off the computer as non-root ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>man sudo :)
>>>
>>>
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