I haven't ever understood the term "SUDO". They told me it stands for "Super User DO", but if I searched the usergroups and usernames on the OS there was no SUPERUSER to find anywhere.
There is basically only 1 admin or root account that can and may control the whole OS. The way the admin is treated inside Windows vista, XP and 2008 is IMHO very annoying. I AM the ADMIN and since I AM the ADMIN I do KNOW what I am doing. Don't ask me if I really, really, really want to do this or that. If I wasn't sure then someone made a mistake to give me the admin rights. IMHO if someone needs to do something that has to be done with admin rights, he/she should log in as admin or root and act like one. I think a lot of security things are created to prevent the user from thinking. It is like when I want to use my cars GPS-system, it always warns me that the roads are not completely sure and I may not watch the screen the whole time. I really hate that American "don't sue us" policy. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Gunderson [mailto:kgund...@teamcool.net] Sent: dinsdag 24 mei 2011 15:04 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info? On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 13:33 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > On 24 May 2011, at 13:10, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > Especially when that distro is loosing respect from those who actually > > have a clue or two due to continued track record of bugs that result in > > very unreliable platform choice for the server room. > > Inflammatory and arrogant comments like this are not constructive, nor are they welcome. > > We're trying to create a friendly, open and inclusive community here. Attacking other distributions and the users of those distributions has the opposite affect, and will drive people away. > > Please can people be mindful of the language they use on-list and realise that list members are ambassadors for the OS. > > Keep it technical, don't get personal. I don't want to get into a tit for tat with you here but my remarks were not intended to come off as arrogant. To clarify, my opinion of Ubuntu is based on technical merit as result of having used it. Until incessant bugs drove management to pony up for significantly more costly RHEL. I don't think it's appropriate for this list to get into the nitty gritty technical details. I also base my opinion on feedback from other Linux users: seasoned administrators I have had discussion with often express similar experiences/frustrations regarding Ubuntu. Those who I talk with who like it _tend_ to be lower tech and newer to Linux types. My use of "those who have a clue or two" to differentiate these different users was probably less than optimal, but hopefully doesn't invalidate the larger point I was trying to make - that copying Ubuntu simply because it is popular with a certain subset of users should not be considered best practice. This latter aspect was what prompted my initial comment on the subject. And yes, I've already allowed that I agree with the technical/security side of the decision on this particular issue. And to end on a positive note, I think Debian is a very nice Linux distro. -- Ken Gunderson <kgund...@teamcool.net> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
