Vote for new Ubuntu Feature---Let's try it again

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

Wulfy wrote:

> Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> > mtyoung wrote:
> >   
> >> So, if Ubuntu wants to make me think twice before it allows me to
> >> change something, then let it give me a warning message and ask
> >> for [my password] 
> >
> > It's not what "Ubuntu wants", it's called keeping a multiuser
> > operating system secure. If you want free and clear access to
> > everything as a user, then either run your system in a horribly
> > insecure way by logging in and doing everything as root all the
> > time, or choose an operating system that doesn't make any
> > distinction between users and administrators. 
> >   
> How is asking for a password which must be correct and the user with
> sudoer having rights to do the operation in question (or the
> authorisation fails) granting "free and clear access to everything" or
> "run[ning] your system in a horribly insecure way by logging in... as
> root"?

How are the original poster's problems and solutions *not* readable as
"I don't want to figure it out, I want to do it NOW!"?

Fine... there's a really easy solution to that dilemma... :)

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