Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:00:39
Message-Id: 4EBDE084.3040908@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:19:45 -0600, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Mine is a single user machine both for me and my brother. That said,
5 >> if I did have other users on my machine, they wouldn't even be in the
6 >> wheel group so sudo wouldn't happen either. They would be able to do
7 >> user things but nothing else.
8 > What happens when there is that one thing they need to do that needs root
9 > privileges? Do you give them the root password and let them do what they
10 > want, or do you make that one operation available to them?
11 >
12 >
13
14 I would do it myself. I don't let anyone mess with my OS. I might let
15 someone surf the net with my rig or use OOo or something but not the OS
16 itself.
17
18 They would get over it I'm sure. lol
19
20 Dale
21
22 :-) :-)