On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:56:57PM -0500, Philip Ganchev wrote: > Ideally, you should not have to type "sudo". If a command requires > privileges, the user should be able to type the command and be asked > for the password. If she does not give the right password, the > command is not executed.
not a good idea. most programs do something useful both with and without root privileges. eg: rm. in most cases you do not need root access to remove a file, in most other cases where removing fails you do not want to switch to root to remove the file, but you just want to leave the file alone. only in a very few cases you really want to remove the file with root permissions. the number of commands that don't do anything useful without root permissions is very small. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer working in new zealand community.gotpike.org unix system- iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at open-steam.org administrator caudium.org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
