On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 23:59 -0400, Kam wrote: >> With Fedora-live sudo does not work as expected either. It leads to >> additonal confusion. > > We used to maintain a sudo tutorial, which gives us a single, external > reference for all-things-sudo without repeating it in each guide/on each > page. > > However, this breaks the model that Elizabeth (Ann optional?) proposed, > which I generally agree with. For the User Guide, we want them not to > have to use the super-user powers, but what do we do when they have to? > > Myself, I like the original compromise that Murry brought here, thus > interpreted: > > * Be consistent, either 'su -c' or 'sudo' and all that entails (At the moment I'm not using either) > * Don't show the prompt in giving a command; it should be cuttable and > pastable as-is > * Show the appropriate prompt symbol only when showing a set of example > output (<screen> block), as that is what the user literally sees. > * Also don't show the $PS1, which is the user/host info ([foo@localhost > tmp]$) I've used user@host once to make sure they are logged in as the user (newuser) created in the previous steps, otherwise I leave this out. Before you jump on this, I was not being lazy, and the text before makes it crystal clear to log in as this user ;) > > Maybe we want to add: > > * Use full path to command when it is not likely to be in the _user's_ > default path, which is changing for F10. > > My vote on 'su -c' v. 'sudo' is not set yet. I could be swayed in to a > sudo tutorial, if we could really do that consistently. Otherwise, we > have to go for the common command that will work _everywhere_, which is > 'su -c'. If the user doesn't have the root password for that command to > work, the user should not be doing the command in the first place! > > - Karsten > -- > Karsten Wade, Community Gardener > Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com > Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org > gpg key : AD0E0C41 > > -- > fedora-docs-list mailing list > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list > -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
