Questions about Ubuntu

[Thomas Charron]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> On 09/18/2008 07:53 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
>> On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:49, mike ledoux wrote:
>>> What do you need the root password to do in Fedora?
>> If you run any GUI admin tools it'll ask you for the root password.   This
>> is a bug, IMNSHO - if the user has sudo rights that should be  sufficient,
>> with or without a raster display.
>> Even Apple gets this right.  <-- waves red flag at bulls
> I don't agree that it is a bug. When I first installed Ubuntu, I was used to
> the root password, and it was confusing for a while.

  However, if you can do anything root can do without it asking for a
password explicity, one has to ask..  Why not just run as root at that
point.  If there is no isolation, and anything you need to have admin
privs to do can be done by users in a certain 'group'....

  Well, I suppose it means anyone with admin rights would at least be
able to have different desktops. *shrug*

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-- Thomas