cross-platform virus

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:44, Derek Broughton wrote:
> john wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:40:37AM +1000, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> >> most of the time they have never even heard of sudo) and they just leave
> >
> > Perhaps su could print a message like:
> >   If you do not know the root password, or the root account is disabled
> >   (It is disabled by default on Ubuntu), you can still do system
> >   administration with sudo. For example,
> >
> >      sudo command-that-needs-root-access
> >
> >   This will only require your own password, unless you do not have sudo
> >   privileges.
>
> I understood that opening a terminal actually tells you something like
> that, already, until you actually use sudo.  Last week, somebody on one of
> the Ubuntu lists was complaining about that behaviour :-)
> --
> derek
I use Dapper, and I have never seen this message, although that could be 
because I chagned something (not sure what). Anybody who uses Dapper on thsi 
list seen it?

Sasha