Terminals

[david at lang.hm]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Gary C Martin wrote:

> On 1 Aug 2008, at 03:25, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> Curious as to what occasions need root access within X Windows? Maybe
>> the console is enough?
>>
>> -walter
>
> I don't think I've used the console in months, nice to know it's there
> in an emergency, but it was problematic to use for normal admin tasks
> for two reasons:
>
> 1) The keyboard map does not match the machines actual keyboard, so
> trying to remember US key layout on a Spanish keypad is a
> nightmare :-) Anyone know any tricks to correct that?
>
> 2) Often the olpc related scripts I'd be trying to use would have some
> hooks into X, and other environment variables. Without a lot of env
> hacking/guessing they would just bomb out in console.

numerous 'special keys' don't work at the console, including adjusting the 
screen brightness.

David Lang

>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
>>> One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal
>>> activity
>>> is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it can serve the dual
>>> role of
>>> root terminal and 'general exploration' terminal. Perhaps reviving
>>> the
>>> Quake Terminal for the root-terminal role and isolating the Terminal
>>> activity proper would be a nice way to solve half of our security
>>> issue?
>
> --Gary
>
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