[ABANDONING:] Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

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On 12/18/2011 06:31 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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> They'll get thunderbird, but no email (if they want it, I'll have to 
> have a reason).
-=-

thunderbird is email. firefox is web browser. tho, if they are savvy,
linux file browsers can be used for web browser.


> Good point about gnome / kde ... I was assuming that they wouldn't need a
> shell. I planned on leaving the rc files et al at default f14.
-=-

thinking about that kde konqueror, besides web browser ability, <F4> will
open to a shell.

thinking about all this, i fear i may make you paranoid, which i do not
mean to do. so maybe this will help ease your mind;

]$ locate bin/konsole
/usr/bin/konsole

  mv /usr/bin/konsole /usr/bin/konsole-hide

or what ever you want to name it.

using 'locate bin/filename' will find most all executables you may want
to hide. just be sure you do not hide too much.


> Sudo should be controlled by sudoers file, right?
-=-

correct. brain must be getting tired.


> Renaming 'rm' and 'kill' are good ideas I hadn't thought of ...

]$ locate bin/rm
/bin/rm
/bin/rmdir

]$ locate bin/kill
/bin/kill
/sbin/killall5
/usr/bin/kill
/usr/bin/killall


> they may be overkill but its not a bad idea for me to have a "you can't 
> hurt me"
-=-

nothing is overkill when it come to 'cyoa' - 'cover your own ass'.

another thought, add a password for grub's boot up. then only way they can
do more than just service is if they know to use a 'rescue cd' or a 'live'.


> There's one of those cryptic emoticons after the <ctrl+alt+fx>

;) and ;-) are winks.


> Point of honor says I remove to DVD and restore afterwards ... I owe
> it to the folks I know developing Maya to act as though I was doing
> what they would wish. They've been good to me and I know they'd want
> it removed.
-=-

you have it on usb. dvd would be extra protection.


> I'll try that, thanks for the suggestion (though I can't tell you 
> whether what was stored is an rpm).
-=-

all fedora is rpm.

  rpm -q -l

will list all rpm packages.

  yum list all

will show also.

again, run 'man rpm' and 'man yum' and search for what you want to know.
search is executed by entering "/" followed by what you want to search.
pressing <n> key for 'next'.



> Right now, I'm more interested in  understanding the original email
> that explain what to do regarding  getting boot info on.
-=-

specifically?


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