On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:18:02PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Murray J. Root wrote:
> 
> > msec is a nice tool - for sys admins. For the average user it's nothing
> > more than a pain in the ass. My kids want to create videos, not mess
> > with config scripts. And they shouldn't have to - but with msec
> > installed one of them needed to learn enough to tell msec to stop
> > disabling access to firewire devices so they could use dvgrab and kino.
> 
> Msec does not touch devices:

I don't know what it was touching - dvgrab and kino have permission 
problems right from the beginning. I'd ask the kids what they had to 
change but they're asleep (my 13 year old knows more about admin in 
linux than I do :). My point was and is - it required learning msec 
to make MDK useful to my non-computer-geek kids. Fortunately for them
they have a brother who is a geek - we should not depend on that for
average users.
The problem was and is - msec changes things root has changed. That is
absolutely always wrong. There is no exception.

-- 
Murray J. Root


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