On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:08:35 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:59:28AM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> Hum... if I interpreted correctly your words, you think "sudo" is >> intended for non-expert users and I don't think so, but the opposite: >> "sudo" (as I see) is for people who know what involves and what it >> means and not many newbies know very well how permissions are managed >> in their systems and don't care much on security considerations. >> >> In brief: if you know what "sudo" is for, you should not have any >> problem to configure it ;-) > > If you know what is for then you'd know to put sudo before any command > that you should execute as root. That sounds pretty obvious. > But Ubuntu configures it automatically AIUI and there is the occassional > Ubuntu user asking questions on *this* list where the advice "sudo > <whatever>" will work but may not be the correct advice for an Ubuntu > system. That shouldn't be a problem at all. In such case we only have to instruct the user about the right command, not very complicated. > But for a new Debian user (either an ex Windows or ex Ubuntu user), the > advice "sudo <whatever>" won't work[1] and just may confuse the poor > bugger. Confussion is not bad, it provides "an extra" of experience. A little of patience and all can be done flawlessly, I still don't see any problem with that. Every distribution has its own defaults but the same base remains. "Sudo" works on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE... <put here the name of the distro you want>. It's not a default setting in Debian, right, but it is an option. KDE is not a "default" neither but should be avoid replying here all KDE-related topics? ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.02.14.15...@gmail.com
