[Mageia-dev] ignoring drakperm Re: recent change in mageia wiki : calenco draktools

Sat Nov 10 18:33:37 CET 2012

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+On 10/11/2012 18:06, PhilippeDidier wrote:
+> Marja van Waes a écrit :
+
+>> 
+>> Found it in the changelog for drakconf: 
+>> http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/db496e5b0c779fd6d04146c16db8c594/changelog
+>>
+>>
+>> 
+scroll down to:
+>> 
+>> Thu Jan 22 2009 Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni at mandriva.com>
+>> 12.1-1mdv2009.1 + Revision: 332392 - Version 12.1 - 21 January
+>> 2009, Eugeni Dodonov - removed entry for drakperm (now handled by
+>> msecgui) - add support for msecgui - changed description for
+>> draksec functionality
+>> 
+>> Is drakperm as command line tool still usable and being used, or 
+>> should it have been obsoleted?
+
+s/command line tool/tool that can be started from cli/
+
+>> 
+> Indeed... you're right there's no more any access to drakperm in
+> the MCC ! and it's replaced now by MSEC GUI handling it
+> 
+> I remembered  having used drakperm in old Mandriva until 2008.1 In
+> the MCC of Mandriva 2008.1 we could still  access to it (see
+> attached snapshot : it's the icon on upper right corner)
+> 
+> and it disappeared in Mandiva 2010.1 (I never had to use it then
+> and I didn't notice it was no more here)
+> 
+> drakperm still exists and can be launched from a console as root...
+> but I don't know if it's still useable... and useful ? I think MSEC
+> may overwrite the modifications applied by drakperm
+> 
+
+OK, thanks Philippe.
+
+So there seems no need to write anything about it.
+
+It is part of the drakxtools package, btw, I don't know why I thought
+for a moment that it could be a separate package that could be
+obsoleted, if it has indeed become useless.
+
+@ tv
+
+Do you agree with documentation team ignoring drakperm, or is the tool
+still good and used?
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