On 07/11/14 12:00, [email protected] wrote:
I'm slightly confused as to why Chris thought this (Chris, are you watching
the list?).
I'm also confused because Ubuntu doesn't normally have an admin account as
such. Do you mean that when you added the accounts you only made one of them
an administrator? By default, (K)Ubuntu) uses sudo to carry out
administrative tasks and that option in the User dialogue simply adds the
user
to the sudoers list.
In case you aren't aware of how this works, the default setup in Kubuntu (and
Ubuntu AFAIK) is that the first user is a made a sudoer and additional users
can optionally be added. Whenever a task arises that requires root
privileges, the user is required to enter*their* password. In practice this
means that any commands to be executed in bash that need root privileges have
to be prefixed with the command sudo (eg apt-get, etc) and tasks performed
via
the desktop will normally pop up a dialogue asking for the password. So for
updates, the user will be prompted that there are updates ready and on
clicking on the icon in the Task Bar the process continues, providing that
the
user is in the sudoers list.
If you don't want the second user to have root privileges, then there is no
solution to this other than to switch user to install the updates.
Terry,
Yes, I do all that at the moment and I want to speed up the account
switching. So, perhaps a separate admin account, still requiring the
use of sudo, would help. Even if it does it may be too tedious; I'd
need to log into it daily for updates at least.
I'll have an SSD on the new PC and I want to put one user on this and
the other(s) on the HDD. Victor strongly recommended that the top level
directories are different for each of these. So, /ssd would have the
home directory of one user and be mounted on an SSD partition, and /home
would have all the others on the HDD. Also, I presume I should have
another SSD partition for / and a third for swap (swap same size as RAM?)
Is this a particularly large SSD? Normally the OS is installed on the (much
faster) SSD to improve performance and the users are put onto the (much
larger) traditional hard drive because they don't usually need that level of
performance to load and save their files, but they are likely to use up the
space on the SSD.
It's 120Gb. I thought that would be enough for the system (60Gb), swap
(10Gb) and one user (50Gb). I want to try to make one user's activities
as fast as on a tablet. It would be the one used most often and would
log in automatically.
Thanks,
John
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