Vote for new Ubuntu Feature---Let's try it again --- and without getting all religious about it

[Chanchao]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:01 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:

> <quote>
> "we trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System  
> > Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
> >      #1) Respect the privacy of others.
> >      #2) Think before you type.
> >      #3) With great power comes great responsibility.
> 
> </unquote>
> 
> that's the venerable "sudo lecture " 

pseudo lecture? :)

> There is nothing "religious" about opposing the weakening of a time-tested
> security model. It may be inconvenient, but that's intentional. Being made
> to think twice before fooling with system files is a Good Thing (tm).

Ubuntu doesn't mark files as system files, it only has access
permissions.   It comes up so often because it also happens on files
that aren't system files at all.   It could be stricter on files
under /etc and so on, but the OS/filesystem (not individual applications
of course) could offer the option of authenticating as an administrator
if you open a file on a USB stick or Windows partition that you (user)
doesn't have write access to.

>  (totally off-topic:  Anyone who feels Apple should be shot for their
> directory structures has my sympathy, by the way )

If they're shot then they should be shot for the way they do business
and force proprietary formats on people. :) 

Cheers,
Chanchao