Colin Walters escribió:
On 8/16/07, *Gian Paolo Mureddu* <gmureddu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:gmureddu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
fine, adding sudo by default doesn't seem like very good idea for me,
especially after my experiences with *buntu systems where the whole
*/sbin paths are visible to the regular users,
But what is a "regular" user? If you have the Vista/OSX desktop spin,
"regular users" won't ever open a terminal (or really, any application
other than a web browser), and so the default path is completely
irrelevant.
But as a developer, when I open a terminal I want ifconfig, damn it.
Then change your .bashrc to include /sbin in the PATH, don't do it
"universally" for all users and much less *enforce* insecure practices.
Besides as I said, many of the /sbin commands run as regular users, and
just like you I don't see the "burden" to use the full path...
/sbin/ifconfig...
and though many of those
commands need proper authentication to do their job, there are quite a
few which can run with regular UIDs. I've always thought that the
presence of a proper 'root' account in Fedora and Red Hat was way
better
than having one "disabled".
It's unclear to me how the root account being enabled or not relates
to the path.
Anyways, I couldn't care less about whether or not you can log in as
"root". What is important is to kill password prompts, *especially*
prompts for two passwords. If we killed the prompt for the updater
we'd be 90% there since that's the only thing that regularly prompts
(or used to) in day to day use.
Are we going completely out of our minds here?? Since when alerting the
user that s/he's about to do something that will affect the whole system
is a bad idea? I do agree that having two password pop ups might not be
the best or most elegant solution, but neither is "opening up" the
system and putting it at risk. Getting rid of that extra layer *is*
putting the system at risk. Especially in the hands of inexperienced
users (and I know and am aware that Fedora's traditional audience is
*NOT* inexperienced users, and yet, the Forums are flooded with new
users questions and issues... So I'd think of them too).
This forum thread fixed it for me:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-139634.html
Let's just do it.
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