cross-platform virus

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 10 April 2006 13:18, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> 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.

I think that would only serve to increase support traffic even more 
and introduce confusion. We are already swamped with "I typed my root 
password and nothing happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" type posts, 
surely we don't want more and also have two explain to switch-to-root 
systems? With sudo, a single default setup suits most single users 
well, and it scales up.

-- 
If only you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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