that darned ROOT problem

[Bo Grimes]

'Forum Post wrote:

>you can do what I did.
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>you can have ubuntu automatically login as you on a reboot.
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>then change your password to something they dont know.
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>the kids dont need to know it to use the pc, it will only ask if they
>want to do something impartant.  You get the single user - and password
>protected admin utilties
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>-just a thought
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And a good thought.  I like it. 

I think people on broadband, some of whom have never known anything 
else, forget what a pain it is to do things like log off the internet, 
log out of an account, then someone else logs in, dials back up, 
etc...all just to browse the web, chat or email.  People won't do it, so 
you effectively have a single user system anyway.

There's no way that my 15 year old is going to want his 12 year old 
sister to log off everything when she's done chatting just so he can log 
in on his own account and browse the web or check his email.  It's not 
like I'm hiding porn or something. My data is backed-up, and I don't 
care about personalizations.  There are no secrets.  I just don't want 
the kids borking the system accidentally.