On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:02:49PM +0200, Andreas Hanke wrote:
Why do we need these Windows-Linux comparisons? Superuser capabilities are a genuine UNIX feature. There is nothing "MS Windows-like" in having an option to grant users certain permissions.
Those options are available. sudoers is just for that.
It shouldn't be the default, of course, but nobody seriously proposes insecure defaults. sudo exists anyway, so I fail to see the point why having such an option in the software updater can be a problem.
Because it is a job for sudoer, not for the software updater to add such a function. I very much dislike the fact that I am not asked for a pasword when I run updater. If it is not an automated job, I want to enter a root password each time I do something as root. Yes, each and every time.
Educating people how to manage their systems is out of scope in this discussion IMHO. If someone wants to grant permissions, he will do it anyway, does it really matter if it's the classical UNIX tool named sudo or a built-in feature of the software updater?
Yes, that does matter. It is not up to the software updater. It is up to root to change sudoers. -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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