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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:10:27 +0100, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: |
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> Yes, Alan, you're right, I'm on a single-user machine. I apologize, I |
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> should have made it clear. Indeed, I can see that in a multi-users |
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> machine sudo is useful. I just don't agree on the Ubuntu policy of |
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> using sudo instead of root by default, assuming that it provides more |
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> security. |
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Ubuntu is designed for Linux newbies, those conditioned to the Windows |
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way of working. Give them a root password and they will soon get fed up |
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with typing it whenever they need to do $something and just log into the |
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desktop as root. It is easy enough to enable root access in Ubuntu, but |
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you do have to work out how to break it for yourself. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Diarrhoea is hereditary, it runs in your genes. |
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