that darned ROOT problem

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 28/09/05, Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> I have followed this subject time and again and would like to pose two
> questions. How many users of Linux are there who could change to Ubuntu
> and, therefore, are aware of Root and its access and uses? How many
> users of Windows are there who could change to Ubuntu and, therefore,
> are most probably unaware of Root and just want to get on and use the
> software provided?
>
> Let's stop criticising the developers and let them get on with providing
> us with useful and stable applications and operating system.

I don't think anyone is criticizing the developers. Everyone on this
thread, I believe, are in total agreement that sudo is better. The
issue is how to make sudo more obvious for the crustier geeks who
adopt Ubuntu and think they know everything already. I include myself
in that group and admit that I was confused at first, too. And then I
tried to wrestle Warty into something like Red Hat by installing
things from outside Universe that demanded a root user... Before you
know it, you're tied up in knots. I think an alias or script wrapper
for su would help.

-Eamonn

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