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Alan McKinnon ha scritto: |
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> On Monday 18 May 2009 22:14:43 bn wrote: |
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>>> If you use Ubuntu, you've got to accept their eccentric & questionable |
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>>> attitude to passwords, esp that they don't have a separate root password. |
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>>> I find that a piece of cheap popularisation contrary to UNIX principles. |
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> Huh? |
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> The package you are talking about is sudo. Might I add that sudo follows the |
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> grand time honoured tradition of the principle of least priviledge whereas su |
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> does not? |
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As far as I know it is not enough to just use sudo. When a GUI program |
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requires admin privileges, it will usually ask the root password. On |
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Ubuntu, it will instead "sudo" its privileges. That's the thing, I think |
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Ubuntu patches its software to behave properly with its own sudo thing. |
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But it's not a big deal, it's just a feature which made sense to me but |
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I can live very happily also with the good old Unix way. |
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