Wireless Network Key

[Mark Haney]

Chris Jones wrote:
> 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).

True.  But the security threat still applies here.

> 
>> 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.

Maybe so, but I've moved on from it.  I much prefer command line for 
this anyway.  It's what I'm used to. I can type faster than I can point 
and click.

> 
> Chris
> 


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