review on ian @ w98

[John]

Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Shawn McMahon wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:11:19PM -0800, Steve Bibayoff said:
>>  
>>
>>>In a nutshell, you effectively type the word 'sudo' before every
>>>command you'd otherwise run as root. What a hassle."
>>>    
>>
>>IMHO, this isn't a problem that needs to be fixed.  The majority of
>>people who know what "su to root" even means also know about sudo, and
>>also know how to make it work with su.
>>  
> 
> It's one of the biggest FAQ's, so we're trying to solve it in Dapper.
> The goal is that the shell will tell you about sudo every time you fire
> it up until you actually use sudo. I don't know if this covers the
> console as well as terminal windows.

This could get very tiresome for some: I regularly use eight or so Linux 
systems, and am regularly setting up new ones; it gets very tiresome 
having to make all these systems work "just so," turning off noobie 
nagware (tips of the day and such), stopping CDs and USB media getting 
automounted, making konsole put its tab bar at the top like everything 
else etc etc.

And don't get me started about Windows XP tour, autobreak....



> 
> I'm trying to find out if we can get "su" to talk about sudo if the user
> doesn't have a root password yet... 

That sounds way more sensible.

You could also add to account creation, "out of  <tyro> 1..5 <guru>, how 
experienced is this user?" and make adjustments that seem sensible: 1 
gets all the handy hints, 5 gets none and others in between.