sudo: what is the point?

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 10:39 -0800, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
wrote:
> 	sorry, i dont agree that access to the command line ui
> 	should be limited	at all. 

I don't believe Eric said that.  AFAICT, he was advocating a GUI
solution as well, so people can easily handle this sort of thing.  If
you want to use visudo instead, feel free to do so.

> 	1.	ubuntu IS NOT and HOPEFULLY will NEVER BE a clone of OSx
> 		WinDoze.

Please try to keep your language polite, and properly respectful towards
other operating systems.  Calling Windows 'WinDoze' achieves nothing,
and only makes us as a community look silly and immature.

> 	2.	IT is a UNIX clone which means that first and foremost
> 		a workbench/toolkit so such limitations

How is extra capability, a limitation?


> 	i think the cmdline ought to be exist as it is

No-one's proposing that it be removed.

>         and those who know how
> 	and/or interested in learning how should be free to do just.

If a GUI is provided, people who are interested in the specifics of the
format of the sudoers file can still learn it.