that darned ROOT problem
Bo Grimes
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Wed Sep 28 12:09:59 UTC 2005
Anders Karlsson wrote:
> Some form of hint during the install would be an
> idea though - I could have used it, and I would not rate myself a
> "newbie". Perhaps some tech-note to be dumped into the user account
> that gets created during the install with a short education about
> sudo and security? Just a thought...
I can't imagine a better idea. Dump it straight to the desktop.
I think my problem was that I went straight to a shell to mount
/dev/hdb3 in a panic, hoping my Mepis partition hadn't been overwritten
by memtest. I have known of sudo but never used it. Since the only
password I had given during the install was my user account I tried it
with su. If, OTOH, I had been trying to access an option in the GUI
that required priviledge and had gotten the dialogue box I would have
tried my user password and it would have worked because sudo would have
been invoked without my knowledge.
In general my problem with the Ubuntu approach to this is it makes a lot
of assumptions about who a user is and how he uses the system and what
his needs will be. That seems a more likely explaination for the noise
about this issue than "people don't read."
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