Privacy

[Rhyotte]

   @ Lin...
  Thanks for the info: su bookkeeper -c /usr/bin/gnucash. I really 
should have known about that....and on a base level I really did. One of 
those things ya forget if you dont use them often if ever, quite useful. 
Linux security is downright draconian... how many ways would you like to 
protect your data? let me count the ways.....err..no id be here hours 
tryin I do believe.
   @ The People who want a PW....
   Hmm....its been 4 years since I rubbed this in a former employers 
face... isnt it *.pwd... or is it *.pwrd ?.... hmm something like that 
in the search string under windows 98 and if im given to understand it 
correctly even in Win2k Non-NTFS and XP Non-NTFS. Anyhow unless you have 
a 'journaled filesystem' on a newer OS ect Just Passwords are not even a 
good joke...as I can Change them or Erase them at will with little or no 
problems. So do you begin to start to see how insecure they really 
are?... Perhaps you are thinking "but i only want to keep out the honest 
people".... my response would be HUH?????? Yeah Ok...
   @ Derick,
  The dev's of GC are doing a superb job. I am glad to see that you got 
the fortitude to not cave in to requests like this. It really IS the 
users job to maintain security. However...perhaps a "USERS HOTSHEET" for 
a quick and dirty how to setup GC with a few basic security scenerios 
would be in order? Then when things like this come up...its a Link 
www.foo.bar.org... "here read up, it is not a long how to...just basic 
and very quick....have a good day etc..." Most folks simply refuse to do 
_ANYTHING_ at all in reguards to security beyond an Illusionary 
PassWord... As a person to whom friends and friends of friends come to 
when their computers break...it sickens me when folks refuse to even 
make simple user accts...and it double sickens me to see folks who 
insist on running 2k and XP with full Admin accts...of course XP corp 
pro even defaults to full on ADMIN priv..."here is the weapon, here is 
the ammo...please go play on the FreeWay with 
them...Kbyethxcyasoon"..../grumble /rant off...sorry but its a personal 
peeve of mine. Some folks it would seem just Cannot be even remotely 
bothered with _any_ form of tangible security... To each their own I 
suppose. But you should have seen my boss when he asked me to make up a 
quickbooks form for them and they had installed PW's on all of their 
stuff.....forgot to tell me about it... There are a few users on this 
list who know exactly what I did...and my boss was way unamused.... :) 
but he DID learn from that. BTW they had Win 98 on that system...swiss 
cheese anyone?
   There is a moral to that story folks...if you T*H*I*M*K about it...hmm

Peace