Re: [cobalt-users] Midnight Commander

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thom LaCosta wrote:

> It's a truly unpleasent surprize...not only can any user access it,

It works like a shell, Thom.  If you don't want certain users to be able
to access it, give it "x" rights only from one group you set up
manually, and make the people you want to be able to use it members of
that group.

> but
> the uninstaller doesn't seem to work...and to add insult to injury, it
> "phones home" with hostname, IP name and even the MAC address.

I don't know anything about the uninstaller; it should be easy to
uninstall, but I've not tried Michael's package.  And I believe Michael
has posted somewhere that yes, his packages "phone home" upon
installation.

> I suppose
> one saving grace is that it cc's the system admin, so you know the little
> bugger sent out a netmail.

He's certainly not trying to hide the fact.

If you'd rather, you can install it from the latest version RPM
available for RHL6.2; should work fine.  You can find one at
www.rpmfind.net if memory serves.

Jeff
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