few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 19:47:37 UTC 2008


Eric Mesa wrote:
> I've been following this sporadically, but if the issue is, as I believe 
> it is, whether a regular user should be able to run the programs that we 
> usually save for root, then I say, "have you gone nuts?"  If you want 
> that, go use windows. 
>

Don't confuse permission to access the things the programs typically 
affect with the finding the programs in your PATH.  No one is suggesting 
that the concept of root authentication should go away.  Just that the 
difference between doing "su' and "su -" be less confusing and that 
typing ifconfig should show a user his ip address, not
bash: ifconfig: command not found

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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