[Klug-general] removal of an unneeded module

MacGyveR macgyver at thedumbterminal.co.uk
Mon Dec 10 22:12:00 GMT 2007


On Sunday 09 December 2007 21:49, Mike Evans wrote:
> George Prowse wrote:
> > PS. Also why do you have to give the whole path to /sbin when giving
> > commands like ifconfig and lsmod in Fedora? It's very annoying!
>
> No idea on your networking problem.  I have been able to use rmmod on
> some modules in Fedora 6 if I remember rightly.  (I'm on my play Ubuntu
> at the moment though so can't check.)  I'll check my notes.
>
> Dunno why they chose not to put /sbin on the path - but you can put it
> there in your bash config really easily.
>
> A similar question for the Ubuntu pundits though:  Ubuntu sets up home
> directories so that everyone can read each other's!  Like what happened
> to privacy?  I manually went through and reset the privileges. After
> all, what's the point of having a reasonably secure operating system and
> a firewall shut down to extremes and then letting auntie Doris check my
> browser history?  Is there some way to set the default permissions for a
> new user directory?
>
> Mike
>
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the generic way would be to chmod the /etc/skel directory to something like 
0700, i'm not sure if this is the best way though.

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