few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Dnia 26-03-2008, śro o godzinie 17:04 -0500, Les Mikesell pisze:
> Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > Dnia 26-03-2008, śro o godzinie 22:31 +0100, Benny Amorsen pisze:
> >> "Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> compared to the difficulty of making use of things like route as a user...
> >>> what is the difficulty of editting the .bash_profile manually to extend
> >>> the path?
> >> It isn't really practical when you have several servers. Yet another
> >> setting which needs to be applied on install (in kickstart) and
> >> checked after upgrades.
> >>
> >> Easier to just su - and run the commands.
> > 
> > "su -" requires password.
> > 
> > [HERETIC]
> > 
> > With sudo you can omit password, by an option.
> > 
> > [/HERETIC]
> 
> Or you could let the first-added user run sudo commands with his own 
> password instead of having a usable root password as seems fashionable 
> these days.  I hated that the first time I encountered it, but you just 
> have to get used to typing 'sudo su -' when you want to stay root for a 
> while.

[HERETIC]

It's more usable, if you have no password :> .

[/HERETIC]

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