On Wednesday 02 February 2011 14:08:35 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > There used to be a time when commands to be executed as a normal user > would be preceeded by a '$' and commands to be executed as root would be > preceeded by a '#'. This is a safer method and makes all the problems I can > forsee non existant[2] > > > [1] Unless they choose expert install from the Squeeze installer. But > then it is their choice to use sudo, and not us assuming they have > it configured. > > [2] - An Ubuntu user won't complain that their system is now buggered > because of the "help" they got from this list. > > - A new user will learn the difference between being root and just a > normal user. > > -- > "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." > -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Chris - I am beginning to think that Chamaleón's problem understanding what we are on about, may be semantic. Lisi -- 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/201102021424.01257.lisi.re...@gmail.com
