cross-platform virus
Sasha Tsykin
stsykin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 12:18:45 BST 2006
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 09 April 2006 15:29, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
>
>> Which is all very well and good, but if you are running a number of
>> commands which all require root access, then it is a major pain to
>> preface each command with sudo. This just acts as another argument
>> to scrap sudo for su as the default. I don't particularly like
>> having to type sudo all the time, Every time I forget it is an
>> annoyance when ti tells me I don't have the privileges to perform
>> the task I wanted to.
>
> That's fine if it's your personal box that only you ever use, but see
> Shawn's earlier reply for the real reasons sudo is better.
>
> When you are one of several admins on a machine, su is inadequate and
> doesn't scale well. At that point you need to take a leaf from the
> kernel developer's book: "Yes, sudo is more inconvenient for you. No,
> we don't care." :-)
>
So supply enterprise and personal desktop options in the installer. It
is certainly something everybody can understand, and is not difficult to
set up, neither would it take much extra disk space, it would only
include things that are simply uninteresting to the average desktop user
in the enterprise option instead. Would seem to make sense.
Sasha
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