few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Andrew Farris]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Whatever purpose someone thought the s- versions might have ever served
>> flies out the window when the the administrator and the only user are 
>> one and the same person who is just confused by sometimes having 
>> commands work and sometimes not.
> This proposal is in the same class of proposals proposing to abandon
> "user accounts" and/or to use "root only".

No it is not.  There are absolutely no security considerations *right now* for 
whether a normal user has /*/sbin in their path or not.  This has nothing 
whatsoever to do with access permission or authorization for actions those 
binaries may attempt to make.  Changing to root only definitely does.

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