prompts in command examples

[Murray McAllister]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 23:59 -0400, Kam wrote:
>> With Fedora-live sudo does not work as expected either. It leads to
>> additonal confusion.
>
> We used to maintain a sudo tutorial, which gives us a single, external
> reference for all-things-sudo without repeating it in each guide/on each
> page.
>
> However, this breaks the model that Elizabeth (Ann optional?) proposed,
> which I generally agree with.  For the User Guide, we want them not to
> have to use the super-user powers, but what do we do when they have to?
>
> Myself, I like the original compromise that Murry brought here, thus
> interpreted:
>
> * Be consistent, either 'su -c' or 'sudo' and all that entails

(At the moment I'm not using either)

> * Don't show the prompt in giving a command; it should be cuttable and
> pastable as-is
> * Show the appropriate prompt symbol only when showing a set of example
> output (<screen> block), as that is what the user literally sees.
> * Also don't show the $PS1, which is the user/host info ([foo at localhost
> tmp]$)

I've used user at host once to make sure they are logged in as the user
(newuser) created in the previous steps, otherwise I leave this out.
Before you jump on this, I was not being lazy, and the text before
makes it crystal clear to log in as this user ;)

>
> Maybe we want to add:
>
> * Use full path to command when it is not likely to be in the _user's_
> default path, which is changing for F10.
>
> My vote on 'su -c' v. 'sudo' is not set yet.  I could be swayed in to a
> sudo tutorial, if we could really do that consistently.  Otherwise, we
> have to go for the common command that will work _everywhere_, which is
> 'su -c'.  If the user doesn't have the root password for that command to
> work, the user should not be doing the command in the first place!
>
> - Karsten
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