From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RP1U6-0001W1-6s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:30:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8238A21C1A0; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966C321C18D for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:27:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40A8180145 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:27:28 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:27:22 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro Message-ID: <20111112002722.300cc554@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4EBD8361.7080407@gmail.com> References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <4EBD3738.9090203@gmail.com> <4EBD4224.7070307@gmail.com> <20111111211831.68ab7c63@rohan.example.com> <4EBD8361.7080407@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs81 (GTK+ 2.24.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Lfdwb53o6FlaFj1V.7o4OCs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 66555abe-dcbc-4068-974d-900cae2d88ec X-Archives-Hash: ed231526d5c081b268e52f4633b8b07f --Sig_/Lfdwb53o6FlaFj1V.7o4OCs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:19:45 -0600, Dale wrote: > Mine is a single user machine both for me and my brother. That said, > if I did have other users on my machine, they wouldn't even be in the > wheel group so sudo wouldn't happen either. They would be able to do > user things but nothing else. What happens when there is that one thing they need to do that needs root privileges? Do you give them the root password and let them do what they want, or do you make that one operation available to them? --=20 Neil Bothwick Windows XP took us to the edge of the cliff. With Windows Vista we took a big step forward. --Sig_/Lfdwb53o6FlaFj1V.7o4OCs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk69vW4ACgkQum4al0N1GQP2AQCgs6PP/G7Yrde/kGgyLJEZnBO0 9S4AnjKj8YaW2hvDBzI/gyKLpGT2n/WT =4ren -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Lfdwb53o6FlaFj1V.7o4OCs--