Wireless Network Key

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Wed Aug 6 18:19:04 UTC 2008


Hi,

> Again, my point here is, if you get user access to Ubuntu, you can get 
> root with no trouble.  Therein is one of those gotchas with Ubuntu.

Only for users with sudo rights. Not all users have this, only the first
user by default (and even that can be changed).

> Maybe we're arguing both sides of the same coin, but the fact is, I 
> offered that as a solution that will work with the obvious caveat thrown 
> in.  I have wireless on several systems without X on them, so NM won't 
> help me in that case.

I believe the NM team are addressing this, i.e they are working on (or
perahps have already released...) a version that will work without
needing a user logged in, or even X.

Chris




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