On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Fred Holmes wrote:
At 10:45 AM 12/27/2008, Tony B wrote:
Let her get settled in with it before you play with it, and let us
know how she likes it. Eventually, you'll want to go in and set her up
as a User, since apparently by default the owner is still inexplicably
an Admin.
That so the help won't have to respond to things that "don't work"
because of improperly-set permissions. Just give the user the maximum
permissions.
Linux does it right, I think. I understand that if one attempts an
operation that requires admin or root permissions, one gets a prompt to
enter a password before the command will execute. The command doesn't
just fail with no or some cryptic error message.
That's correct. It doesn't happen automatically though. A small bit of
configuration is needed (usually happens when the program in question
is installed as part of a package, so in 99% of the cases, this config
is done for you). ... for those of you curious about how this happens,
read the man page for "consolehelper".
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [email protected]
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