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Ashley Benton meggalen at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 20:38:17 UTC 2008


He doesn't know that yet, he will know sudo because I tell him what to do
like sudo apt-get update but he won't use it without me. He is more
interested in his games. Personally, I would prefer that he uses sudo and
try to understand the system instead of the games. I am not worried about
what is on his computer as most of his homework are on mine anyway. If he
breaks it and I can't fix it, I'll just reinstall and the problem will be
solved. I must say that he is only 12 and that I am trying to encourage him
to learn so I think that knowing how and when to sudo is important. And I
must add that unfortunately, I broke my system a few times when I begun to
use Ubuntu, it certainly could have been fixed very easily but I had no idea
how, so if my backup was recent after a few days trying to fix it, I just
reinstalled. I didn't want to bother everybody on a problem if there was
something that I could do. I learned from it and now I can fix most of the
mistakes that I do and continue to learn.
Sincerely
Meg
(I don't use sudo -s and I won't teach him that, at least with sudo you can
find what you did with history, and to use sudo -s you really need to know
what you are doing, I consider that I don't know enough for that)

On Jan 13, 2008 3:02 PM, Gerald Dachs <ubuntu at dachsweb.de> wrote:

> Am Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:51:57 -0500
> schrieb "Ashley Benton" <meggalen at gmail.com>:
> > no he doesn't have root access except with sudo.
>
> This is root access, 'sudo -s' and he is root.
> My son I would not allow this.
>
> Gerald
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