[Hi Geoff, I'm CC'ing you because I am interested in your POV] On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:04 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2010 23:47:06 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > As I mentioned, sudo isn't configured at all by default. > > > > > So what's the best way to go about this? > > > - remove 'sudo' so that the above statement is correct (assuming the > > > reader saw the 'Root User' part) > > > > Yes > > Looking at the Aptitude page now, I see the sudo words are removed, but I > didn't do it (yet). > Somehow, I'm still listed as the last author and the last change (from diff) > is the change I did make > (search ~Dfoo). > How's that possible? > > Apart from that, should the possibility of using sudo be mentioned?
Well, on one side, sudo isn't enabled. On the other hand, sudo should be configured in large organization... my *own* opinion is/was that we should link to the "root" page, typically using a statement like: "Execute this command as [[root]]". The "root" page explains how to execute a command as Root in Debian (in Gnome, KDE, Desktop, Server... the page can still be improved). > If yes, what would be a proper way to go about that? > > > > - prefix commands with $ or # depending on what rights are required > > > > No one ever worked on standardizing this is the wiki, your help is welcome > > if you are interested/motivated. > > Is there already a page which describes the difference between $ and #, so > there could be link to There isn't such page. There used to be a CommandPrompt page[1], but it was dropped because it's quality was pretty low, compared to any bash/shell howto. The question is... who would actually read a page explaining the difference between $ and # ;) > Or is there a better way/your ideas wrt standardizing this in the wiki? That could be added to DebianWiki's editor guide[2]. Franklin [1] http://wiki.debian.org/CommandPrompt?action=recall&rev=19 [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/EditorGuide -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
