Re: APM and Suspend on IBM Thinkpad
William,
In all honesty, no, considering you use a laptop you are probably more prone to
physical security as opposed to network security. In the long term learn about
sudo, this will provide better security as setuid could be a bad habit to get
into.
The less time you spend connected to a network with the same IP address the less
chance of a security flaw being discovered or taken advantage of.
By the way not bad for a newbie!
Regards,
Peter Firmstone.
William McKee wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Thanks for the assist. I have made the function work by suid'ing the apm
> command. Is this a bad thing?
>
> Thanks,
> William
>
> On 11 May 00, at 21:47, Peter Firmstone wrote:
>
> > William McKee wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been lurking on the list here for the last month while I've been
> > > setting up a Debian Linux system (slink upgraded to potato running kernel
> > > 2.2.14) on a Thinkpad 755CD. It's been a poignant and, oftentimes,
> > > frustrating experience but also exhilirating to be moving off the
> > > reliance of MS and Win*.
> >
> > >
> > > Anyhow, I'm just about finished the install and have a couple questions:
> > > 1) when I try to suspend the laptop by closing the case or using
> > > 'apm -s', nothing happens. Using the command, I get an error message
> > > 'Cannot open APM device: Permission denied'
> > > However, I am able to start apm and have it notice AC off-line/on-line
> > > events. Could someone explain the meaning of this error?
> > >
> >
> > It sounds like a permissions problem to me, I assume you are executing the
> > command as your user login? There are three ways around this: One use the
> > sudo package to allow your users to run the command with root permissions.
> > Otherwise you may be able to create a unique group for the file which can
> > be added to your users other groups using the useradd & groupadd commands
> > (for details type "man useradd"), to do this you will need to learn about
> > user and group permissions (other commands you will need are chown and
> > chmod you can also find out about these using the man or howto commands or
> > check under /usr/doc/HOWTO for further information). Finally you can "su
> > root" on the command line, you will be then asked for the root password,
> > you will have to do this every time you want to execute the command
> > although it will be usefull in the short term.
> >
> > >
> > > 2) I am trying to understand the SystemV boot/shutdown sequences
> > > but coming from the DOS/Win* world am having some difficulties. Could
> > > someone give me a good technical reference article or FAQ about how this
> > > all works?
> > >
> >
> > I bought a book, considering the savings you make on the operating system
> > and of course the complexity of linux, I found I needed a good reference
> > guide, I also use all the free documentation I can find, I can't recall the
> > exact documentation you will need perhaps someone else on the list knows?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Peter Firmstone.
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > William
> > >
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> > > On the farm in Lopez, WA
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