From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bebop52 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Doing Linux admin work with Emacs Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <70fd06bf-4566-4274-9381-ee569700cabd@n40g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <8762x6jnde.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291948320 16610 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:32:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:32:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 03:31:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQsm0-00049h-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:31:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQslz-00024E-Sg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:31:51 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i17g2000vbq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.178.63.231 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1287060391 23284 127.0.0.1 (14 Oct 2010 12:46:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:46:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i17g2000vbq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.178.63.231; posting-account=1raJjwoAAACOVrelXMwqJV35v15AszB- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181770 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:10 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77206 Archived-At: Thanks to everybody for the detailled and helpful information. I'm going to quit doing regular work as root, thats for sure. I like both ideas, using tramp or having a second emacs window (with different colours) used only for admin work - I have to give it a try. So I really do need only one user instead of my two different users that complicate my life tremendously. I'm still a bit confused about the admin rights: - is it common and secure to surf the web as a non-root standard user WITH system administration rights? - are giving a user admin rights and giving him sudo-rights two different, independent concepts? I now have two users with admin rights, but /etc/sudoers has only one uncommented line: "root ALL=(ALL) ALL" and /etc/sudoers.d/ is empty. - did I get it right that the option to use tramp sudo/su is available to standard user WITHOUT system administration rights too? When I get this user stuff straight I would only need to find a (easy) way how to connect to alice dsl from an xterm session, then I wouldn't need no gnome desktop anymore, just xterm and emacs. But thats probably another topic. (using gnome it's just one click on the network-manager-applet and I'm connected. I wish there would be just one command in an xterm window to achieve the same).