On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:49, you wrote: > 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.
Done! I already had put a copy of latest Knoppix on CD and Tom's RTBT on floppy in the bag. I shall also make a Debian rescue disk to go with it (but that might be redundant). Thanks for the uber-geek nerd synopsis. What would a lazy-geek nerd do? (Actually, I know). =;^)
