Wireless Network Key
Arthur H. Johnson II
arthur.johnson at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 21:33:10 UTC 2008
Mark Haney wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
Well, to add fuel to the fire, I have to agree with Mark. My laptop
moves from network to network in my busy day as a sysadmin. Its much
easier for me to open a terminal and execute one of 11 shell scripts to
connect to wherever I'm sitting. Plus, its easy to set up a new network
by using an old script as a template.
I had to remove the network manager from /etc/dbus-1/ to keep Firefox
from constantly starting offline.
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