Few questions about the Admin Gude

[Dan Smith]

I'd suggest including info about shared files/group security, how to set up
shared file repositories. For many Linux users this can be a lesson in
frustration but is a commonly needed task by many users.

Other than that looks like you covered everything top level.

On 12/8/06, Vladimir Kosovac <vnk at mkc.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Karsten Wade wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 21:15 +1300, Vladimir Kosovac wrote:
> >> Hi people.
> >>
> >> I am about to start writing draft for Users/Accounts module of the
> >> guide. Can anybody confirm whether I'm on the right track if module is
> >> structured as per below:
> >>
> >> 1] Intro
> > +         - Briefly say what the entire chapter/section covers
> >>      - A bit about the general stuff (multi-user system, root vs
> >> unprivileged accounts, etc.)
> >>      - Explanation of relevant files in /etc
> >>      - What happens in the background when adding/modifying
> users/groups
> >> 2] Managing users/groups using system-config-users
> >> 3]                   "               using command line utilities
> >> 4] Password policies
> >> 5] Additional documentation
> >>
> >> Does anything else needs covering?
> >
> > Other than that addition above, the list seems complete to me.  I
> > reviewed and lightly edited/reformatted that page, the work is good.
> >
> > Oh, is it worth mentioning or even just linking to SELinux
> > documentation?  Using su to switch users does not necessarily change the
> > user's role, does it?
> >
> > Do you think it is worth covering permission escalation, e.g., su and
> > sudo?
> >
> > There is content about sudo that we can pull as-is with updates into
> > this guide.  It is unpublished AFAICT, but the source is in CVS:
> >
> > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/lxr/docs/source/sudo-tutorial/
> >
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/lxr/docs/source/sudo-tutorial/en_US/sudo-tutorial.xml
> >
> > You can grab the module, which may not build as-is, by doing this:
> >
> > cd /path/to/local/CVS/sandbox
> > export CVSROOT=:ext:<username>@cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/docs
> > cvs -z3 co docs-common sudo-tutorial
>
> I have only anonymous access to
>
> CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/docs
>
> Found sudo-tutorial draft there, written by Paul Frields and Tommy
> Reynolds though. Are we talking about the same document?
>
> Vladimir
> >
> > I just tested, and this works:
> >
> > cd sudo-tutorial
> > make html-en_US
> >
> > You can then copy/paste from the HTML into the Docs/Drafts/...  Unless
> > this belongs in someone else's module. :)  In that case, they should use
> > this content. :) :)
> >
> > - Karsten
> >
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