On Tuesday 13 February 2007 08:42:56 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > Zoran Kolic wrote: > >> Why should the installer need to be root to do so? > > > > Looks like 770/800 is not ready for user-space apps. It is a new kind > > of philosophy on unix field. Personaly, I don't like it much, but a > > lot of folks have stars in the eyes. > > Yes it is a rather new philosophy. Ubuntu and Mac OS X embraced it already. > It can help. A user app cannot mess with the system UNLESS the user > enters a password. > It's different than just clicking "OK" on a warning. All Ubuntu did was use sudo .... and the password for the user. So you go in and add NOPASSWD to your sudo file to get rid of that hassle. > > > I'd rather get rid of sudo and mixture of root and user. And I deeply > > disagree that my 770 is one-user-at-time-gadget. > > Yep I agree with that, even if I see no real use of a multi-user > environment. > Usually these devices are for personal use. > But it'd be a nice welcome, I suppose. > > -- > anidel > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
