Re: [cobalt-users] I know this is stupid...

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> > and I would add php too...  When I built my Terminal in the gui pkg I
> > found the php version the best... and I liked the colors...
> > <scarry>and when you run it in the gui.. your root :) </scarry>  but
> > it's in the gui so if your there, then you are root anyway... :)
>
> Well, not quite.  When you're using the gui interface you're admin, and
> the scripts will do as root the things it's been programmed to do.

well just to clarify some... on most of the gui's you have the power of
root...  Hope that helps...

> Surely anyone who doesn't know their way around a linux system and
> wouldn't log in and try things using an ssh client such as putty would
> know better than to use your gui terminal as well.
> Jeff


actually it's a good starting point as some commands cannot be run by
default...  and it's something many people use on/in their own sites to do
various things on systems with shell access shut off...  Like the cgi you
mentioned...  I just happen to add it to the gui for those that have lost
all but gui access....  sometimes the gui is the only thing that still
works...  Granted it's not the only way to get a shell session... it's just
a way people can prepare for it....

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