On Mon, February 14, 2005 8:49 pm, Christopher Sawtell said: > 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!
I think some guy called Hugo did it years ago, called mondo-rescue > > [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. >
