El dom, 18-08-2002 a las 22:13, Daniel Borgmann escribió: > Hello, > Hi > are there any plans to improve user managment? > I think this is a big problem currently of GNOME. Unix user managment > works great on the console, but there doesn't seem to be a convenient > replacement for "su" on the desktop. This has a critical effect, as it > forces home users either to rely on the terminal for certain tasks > (don't tell me that a user never ever has to touch anything but his > $HOME) or run as root all the time (or relogin as root for every single > task). And as it is always suggested _not_ to use the root account in X, > this is a problem. > I asked someone to explain me how Apple solved it in OS X as I figured > they would face the same problem. He told me that users can be > "administrators" and the first user is an administrator by default. > However, administrators still can't hose the filesystem, so it's not the > "root" account. But they can do things on the GUI like installing > software or changing the root and other user's passwords. Whenever they > try to change systemfiles (in finder most probably), they are asked for > this root password. And of course they can do sudo on the console (or su > but this seems to be disabled by default). MacOSX uses sudo for all tasks. They have a frontend to ask for your password as does the sudo command. > Is there a chance that we see something like this in the near future in > GNOME? I see a lot of people complaining that one of the problems of > GNU/Linux on the desktop still is, that you can't do everything from the > GUI. This might not be important for total beginners or companies (as > they have administrators for this task), but for the typical desktop > poweruser it certainly is. > The "problem" is that this change should be done at the distribution level, not at GNOME level. Cheers. > > - Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Carlos Perelló Marín mailto:carlos gnome-db org mailto:carlos perello hispalinux es http://www.gnome-db.org http://www.Hispalinux.es Valencia - Spain
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