This is usually done via the "usermode" (https://fedorahosted.org/usermode/wiki) feature. The programs that requires priv. to use are symlinks to/usr/bin/consolehelper. When the user invokes such an application by name, consolehelper reads its argv[] and determines which program the user intended to run. Using this piece of information, it then runs/usr/sbin/userhelper with the right arguments. Unlike consolehelper, userhelper is capable of switching to *another* account by interfacing PAM. It checks whether this program (the one that does the actual job, usually not in $PATH. IIRC the jargon term is "PAM service") is present, and lets the PAM configuration determine what kind of authentication is required (i.e. which user's account to use, whether permission is required or optional, etc). If all is well, the service is run as the other user. Because this "other" user account is determined by the service's configuration, the user don't have to type the username, just the password, if required.
Why do everything have to do with terrorists? It's ridiculous from an outsider's point of view, especially after the point has been made over and over again ad nauseam.
And you can as well mod me -1, Un-American if you wish.
So in trying to bash Microsoft you're saying that Linux sucks?
Life and computing both suck. Get over it.
Linux puts a lot more into kernel mode/real mode than Windows does...
I don't use Windows and I of course can't speak for the GP, but it appears to me that GP simply admires a minimalistic kernel design which is lacking in today's mainstream OSes. He wasn't trying to make an argument of Linux being better than Windows or vice versa. So why rinsert the Linux vs. Windows blahblahblah?
And by the way, I don't think code quality has anything to do with where the code lies, in kernelspace or otherwise. Bad code is a problem not because it's in the kernel, but because it's bad.
The boat turned turtle off the coast of Chiba, which is a Japanese port, rather than the coast of China. TFA did mention that the jellyfish's breeding location is off the Chinese coast though.
Finally, we've caught the infidel who has been bribing judges in all free countries in order harm the honest, starving capitalists! It's Anonymous Coward! Someone get him NOW! Think of the music industry!!1!
... most distro maintainers seem to be doing a good job backporting fixes and features from upstream to the "mainline" kernels. At least this is true with Fedora, whose maintainers keeps cherrypicking fixes from 2.6.31 or rc for the mainline F11 2.6.30 kernels.
According to TFA (my karma be damned), Web-based admin UI is enabled on these routers, not only for the LAN but for the whole fucking Internet. This must be the dumbest default setting ever.
Also in TFA...
Time Warner’s Dudley says the SMC8014 modem/routers are just a small portion of the 14 million devices its customers are using.
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This is usually done via the "usermode" (https://fedorahosted.org/usermode/wiki) feature. The programs that requires priv. to use are symlinks to /usr/bin/consolehelper. When the user invokes such an application by name, consolehelper reads its argv[] and determines which program the user intended to run. Using this piece of information, it then runs /usr/sbin/userhelper with the right arguments. Unlike consolehelper, userhelper is capable of switching to *another* account by interfacing PAM. It checks whether this program (the one that does the actual job, usually not in $PATH. IIRC the jargon term is "PAM service") is present, and lets the PAM configuration determine what kind of authentication is required (i.e. which user's account to use, whether permission is required or optional, etc). If all is well, the service is run as the other user. Because this "other" user account is determined by the service's configuration, the user don't have to type the username, just the password, if required.
consolehelper?
So it's like consolehelper all over again? No name asked (it's just "root", duh), and you only have to know the root password.
Nah, real programmer use his own secret LISP code to transform legalese into Klingon automatically.
Why do everything have to do with terrorists? It's ridiculous from an outsider's point of view, especially after the point has been made over and over again ad nauseam.
And you can as well mod me -1, Un-American if you wish.
Life and computing both suck. Get over it.
I don't use Windows and I of course can't speak for the GP, but it appears to me that GP simply admires a minimalistic kernel design which is lacking in today's mainstream OSes. He wasn't trying to make an argument of Linux being better than Windows or vice versa. So why rinsert the Linux vs. Windows blahblahblah?
And by the way, I don't think code quality has anything to do with where the code lies, in kernelspace or otherwise. Bad code is a problem not because it's in the kernel, but because it's bad.
Reminds me of a piece of quotation often attributed to Freud: "The only thing about masturbation to be ashamed of is doing it badly."
Shame, Microsoft, SHAME!!!
Only n00bs need macchanger to change the MAC address.
# ip link set eth0 addr de:ad:13:37:ba:be
The boat turned turtle off the coast of Chiba, which is a Japanese port, rather than the coast of China. TFA did mention that the jellyfish's breeding location is off the Chinese coast though.
I'd use /dev/urandom. Three times ;)
Finally, we've caught the infidel who has been bribing judges in all free countries in order harm the honest, starving capitalists! It's Anonymous Coward! Someone get him NOW! Think of the music industry!!1!
Quality free distro... is that some new kind of marketing babble?
"Download SlashDotOS now! The most recent quality free distro! Completely free of quality!"
nothingtoseeheremovealong
This is from Fedora running kernel 2.6.30 with minimal customization (almost default, and no tweaking related to this one):
$ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
65536
The devs seem to be doing an adequate job to mitigate this problem.
... most distro maintainers seem to be doing a good job backporting fixes and features from upstream to the "mainline" kernels. At least this is true with Fedora, whose maintainers keeps cherrypicking fixes from 2.6.31 or rc for the mainline F11 2.6.30 kernels.
Your long chunk of text inside the "a" tag has given us an intimidating sense of another goatse link.
Yeah, Troi was really "a different breed"...
... and it's like the Forever War all over again.
And I knew your point. I was just joking. If you didn't like the joke, just say you didn't.
By the way, I don't like it, either ;)
The simplest way to win this is to hack the judging process so that your team is voted the winner
T, FTFY.
Sharing is un-capitalistic thus evil. You'll be re-educated.
Use a bare except, plz.
According to TFA (my karma be damned), Web-based admin UI is enabled on these routers, not only for the LAN but for the whole fucking Internet. This must be the dumbest default setting ever.
Also in TFA...
What's more? Gnome With the Ping of Death? ;)
And in other news, you *are* really new here.
Or "apples and apple kernels"?