On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:55, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Feb 13, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: > > If one was to give a laptop to a newbie, say, what would be some useful > > commands to allow them to use with sudo? > > Well, allow sudo for everything (after all, I guess it's their laptop), > with password prompts (the default) but don't tell them about the other > usages :-)
Yes, give them the root p/w, but also a stern lecture about the the computer equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot. Also make a (set of) CD(s) and a boot floppy [1] so that it's possible for him to restore the file set to a state of sanity without too much pain. ( An uber-geek nerd would make the CD bootable to restore the filesystem to sanity and that's all. ) Wow, we've got a product! [1] Toms Root and Boot or BG-Rescue. http://www.toms.net/rb/ and the, imho, superior because it has chroot implemented correctly:- http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ Now I come to remember, there is a CD version of the latter which can do specific apps. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell.
