On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:58 am, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:57, Rainer Krienke wrote:
So leave the decision to the admin of the system. If you want to force someone to do something or not to do something, then this is windows behaviour and not really useful at all.
Have a nice day Rainer
I totally second this way of thinking. If Linux getting more popular means Linux software being conceived the same way as Windows or Mac software, I'm going to have to look elsewhere.
As long as this is a distribution basis (I know (K)Ubuntu makes it very hard for a user to get a root login), it's ok - just choose another distro. But this way of thinking making it's way into KDE would be a problem, as I never really managed to live happy with Gnome.
Thierry
It isn't that hard to get a root login with (K)Ubuntu. You simply have to use sudo to change the root password and then you can login as root. But they like many other distributions have disabled root from graphical login by default. As a matter of fact, due to SuSE's continuing rise in pricing, I was looking at Kubuntu as a possible new distribution and had converted a majority of my home systems to it before I learned of OpenSuSE. And to be honest, I am not sure that I will return to SuSE. I did enable the root account on my (K)Ubuntu systems and I do use it for remote administration when necessary. I am still not a huge fan of APT, but it does do a decent job. I like the fact that everything is sudo based and I can give users privileges to do certain things without giving them the root password. I miss YaST but I have learned to do things manually again and to use the tools provided. They also seem to be a little more "user friendly" to discussions like this one. For one reason, they are avoiding the discussion by making it easier to do most daily activities without root access to the system. I would feel relatively safe putting Kubuntu on my mothers computer. I am not sure that I would be upto doing that with SuSE. -- Kelly L. Fulks Home Account near Huntsville, AL