William, In all honesty, no, considering you use a laptop you are probably more prone to physical security as opposed to network security. In the long term learn about sudo, this will provide better security as setuid could be a bad habit to get into.
The less time you spend connected to a network with the same IP address the less chance of a security flaw being discovered or taken advantage of. By the way not bad for a newbie! Regards, Peter Firmstone. William McKee wrote: > Peter, > > Thanks for the assist. I have made the function work by suid'ing the apm > command. Is this a bad thing? > > Thanks, > William > > On 11 May 00, at 21:47, Peter Firmstone wrote: > > > William McKee wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've been lurking on the list here for the last month while I've been > > > setting up a Debian Linux system (slink upgraded to potato running kernel > > > 2.2.14) on a Thinkpad 755CD. It's been a poignant and, oftentimes, > > > frustrating experience but also exhilirating to be moving off the > > > reliance of MS and Win*. > > > > > > > > Anyhow, I'm just about finished the install and have a couple questions: > > > 1) when I try to suspend the laptop by closing the case or using > > > 'apm -s', nothing happens. Using the command, I get an error message > > > 'Cannot open APM device: Permission denied' > > > However, I am able to start apm and have it notice AC off-line/on-line > > > events. Could someone explain the meaning of this error? > > > > > > > It sounds like a permissions problem to me, I assume you are executing the > > command as your user login? There are three ways around this: One use the > > sudo package to allow your users to run the command with root permissions. > > Otherwise you may be able to create a unique group for the file which can > > be added to your users other groups using the useradd & groupadd commands > > (for details type "man useradd"), to do this you will need to learn about > > user and group permissions (other commands you will need are chown and > > chmod you can also find out about these using the man or howto commands or > > check under /usr/doc/HOWTO for further information). Finally you can "su > > root" on the command line, you will be then asked for the root password, > > you will have to do this every time you want to execute the command > > although it will be usefull in the short term. > > > > > > > > 2) I am trying to understand the SystemV boot/shutdown sequences > > > but coming from the DOS/Win* world am having some difficulties. Could > > > someone give me a good technical reference article or FAQ about how this > > > all works? > > > > > > > I bought a book, considering the savings you make on the operating system > > and of course the complexity of linux, I found I needed a good reference > > guide, I also use all the free documentation I can find, I can't recall the > > exact documentation you will need perhaps someone else on the list knows? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Peter Firmstone. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > William > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > www.knowmad.com > > > On the farm in Lopez, WA > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.knowmad.com > On the farm in Lopez, WA
