On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 09:29 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:06 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote: > >>> 1. Re: Wireless, Broadcom (Patrick O'Callaghan) > >>> Message: 1 > >>> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:22:14 -0430 > >>> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > >>> Subject: Re: Wireless, Broadcom > >>> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>> Message-ID: <1225986734.594.35.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> Content-Type: text/plain > >>> > >>> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 05:28 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote: > >>>>> Look at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96 > >>>> I could not connect to the above link a message came on give me 2 > >>>> choice > >>>> "get me out of here" and "add exception" adding exception indicate > >>>> high > >>>> security risk, I decided not to go forward. any advice? thank you. > >>>> > >>> It just means Firefox didn't recognize the site certificate. Which is > >>> normal for sites that don't want to pay an exorbitant fee to Verisign or > >>> whatever. I wouldn't worry about in this case since the RPMs are signed > >>> anyway. I would worry if it was your bank. > >> Thank you, but I bump in some more problems. I followed OK up to step 6 blacklisting, > >> on step 7 "remove the old module and activate the new one", did not work for me. > >> First it could not find rmmod so I used /sbin/rmmod then could not find > >> modprobe so I used the /sbin/modprobe but now it could not find wl. plese help. > > > > Use "su -" (instead of just "su") and you'll get root's version of > > $PATH. > > > > Note that this changes in F10 i.e. /sbin and /usr/sbin will be on > > everyone's path. > > /sbin on a normal user's path? A bit dangerous, no? I thought it was > separate from /usr/sbin for that specific reason. Do you think Linux security relies on not knowing where the binaries are? AFAIK the stuff in /sbin is there because it could be needed during the boot process, possibly before /usr/bin is mounted. Presumably it's also to reduce the clutter in /usr/bin. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
