Re: Blocking Access

[SoloCDM <deedsmis aculink net>]

"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" stated the following:
> 
> deedsmis aculink net (2001-03-31 at 1059.12 -0700):
> > > don't give them the root password.
> > I'm referring to the Menu Settings, System, ... for personal options.
> 
> Two options:
> 
> - change the binaries to be only executable by a group, and only put
> on it those people you want to allow. Radical and could derive in
> "GNOME sucks, the manual says this and it does not work" or worse.
> 
> - teach your users not to fuck up things. They can only break their
> own items, normally people do not want that. And if they break it,
> they learn, it is like kids and painful things (with basic difference
> that IIRC GNOME is not lethal as a gas kitchen can be).
> 
> I see few reasons for the radical approach. Even demo installs can
> avoid it with the advantage of begin full working demos, like removing
> config and creating a new one in each login. So I see zero reasons,
> ATM.
> 
> I would like to know what really is so important to force things,
> which can create other problems (eye problems, ie) or unhappiness ("my
> boss is dictator", ie), vs freedom. Please share the reason.

Examples:

I've seen people get A's in Psychology and D's in computer classes. 
People of this caliber always advance into and take advantage of
things that have too many options; ergo, these people lock the system
up, remove a host of things that make operations impossible, overload
the system with things that boggle the operations, or take out things
that require reinstallations.

Consequences:

I don't want those things to happen, because guess who has to fix
them?  It's a waste of my time and a lot of downtime.  I could be
doing something more productive.  If options were available by choice
to lockout users by administration changing a setting, allowed things
to happen, but reloaded the defaults when X is reloaded or allowed
users into certain areas by giving permissions -- it would make my
life a lot easier.

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