Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

["jack wallen, jr" <jlwallen iglou com>]

i can agree with this of course.  i think, if i remember correctly, that
anytime in KDE that a user tried to do something that only had root
priveleges they were prompted for the root password - is that being
implimented into gnome?

> Only Root Should Set Up PPP.
> 
> Breaking multi-user Unix to satisfy some debatable single-user
> "ease-of-use" grail is *not* an option.
> 
> If the user needs to be root to do something, then prompt him for the
> root password to do that something. It's that simple.
> 
> If he doesn't want to give the root password again, then explain to him
> how he can get around it (in the pppd case, explain how to set the
> permissions to be -rwsr-x---, and make it owned by root.dip -- users who
> wish to use ppp should be added to the dip group).
> 
>     Jim Cape
>     http://www.jcinteractive.com
> 
>     "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them
>      pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
>         -- Winston Churchill
> 
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