On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:12 AM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > >> >> It can't be that bad, I thought, I can probably only sudo a known program. >> Alas, in the latest version of Ubuntu the sudoers file says >> >> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL >> >> > At least it still requires you to enter a password. This prevents a random > person walking up to your computer and deleting or installing software, etc. > > If you don't like it you are welcome to create an "adminstrator" account, > change root so that you can log in to it, and comment out (or delete) that > line. > What doing any of them breaks, I have no idea and accept no responsability > for anything breaking. And that's exactly the reason I don't want to change the distribution's workflow. This is not a problem for me, I guess that I can figure out which application is requesting the permission by a quick terminal session, but if I expect to use Ubuntu in home desktop of a non-power user, and if (hopefully) someday linux will gain nontrivial market share, that would be a problem. > > >> In Windows when you're asked to leverage a permission of a program, it >> shows you the digital signature of the executable asking for privileges (or >> at least that's how it looks like in the dialog), which is not a very good >> solution IMHO, but it's at least better than nothing. >> > > That started as an add-on to Windows XP, Windows Defender which originally > was Giant Anti-Spyware. Not surprisingly, although it really worked, was not > a pain to have on your system, and was free (as in beer, not FOSS), very few > people used it. So it was made an integral part of Windows Vista and was the > number one complaint. There were many postings about how to turn it off. :-( > That's why I said it's not a very good solution. Moreover, I fear that people will get used to clicking OK when those messages pops, and would ignore entirely what is written in them. Anyone knows what's the approach in OSX? > > Geoff. > > > -- > geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel > geoffreymendel...@gmail.com > I do multitasking. If that bothers you, file a complaint and I will start > ignoring it immediately. > > > > > > >
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