On Monday 28 April 2003 09:25, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 00:05, John Zimmerman wrote: > > > // personal comment follows > > > The rhnsd runs as root, basically that means Redhat have > > > root-access to my system... Luckily they're not M$... And logged > > > into the redhat-network on the web I can trigger software > > > installs/uninstalls on my system... > > > Very nice, well, trust RH 100%, or keep ur system up to date > > > manually... > > > > RHN provides some nice features if you need to use them. But most > > people don't need them. Use apt-get/synaptic and have no worries. > > Use apt-get and let someone else have root access on your machine. true, but I see however a difference between a software I run with root privileges in the moment I desire it, and a daemon which runs 24/24. But don't misunderstand me, this is no flame to RH, I like RH. I just have a strange feeling when a software vendor is connected to my system 24/24 as root. (be it RH, SuSE, MDK or M$...) As suggested, if one has these feelings, the best is probably to uninstall the daemon, and I'm gonna check out freshrpms.net (mmm again a ".net"... ;-) M$ is everywhere ;) > You are aware that every rpm you install can contain scripts which > run as root? It's just a question of who you trust more, Red Hat or > the freshrpms (+ every other apt source you specify) people... yes I am aware, and, well, "configure; make; su; make install" has the same dangers. A big collective thank to everybody who answered, I'm gonna check out what u wrote. regards, Yves http://www.mind.lu/~yg/ > -- > Klaasjan Brand <kjb@xxxxxx> -- Linux 2.4.19-16mdk #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002 i686 7:26pm up 48 min, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.39, 0.29
