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 1RP1Wy-0002FC-R9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:33:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D10C621C0E2; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:32:48 +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 41BC121C1AA for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3EF2180145 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:30:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:30:22 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro Message-ID: <20111112003022.38784b7f@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <4EBD3738.9090203@gmail.com> <4EBD4224.7070307@gmail.com> <20111111211831.68ab7c63@rohan.example.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_/sOvrYU=v1479YLuIUg_VxYV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 62589128-69a7-43d3-a4a9-b84adf9b62c8 X-Archives-Hash: 06abe8c609de4db1d388b75a2f1b8e26 --Sig_/sOvrYU=v1479YLuIUg_VxYV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:10:27 +0100, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > Yes, Alan, you're right, I'm on a single-user machine. I apologize, I > should have made it clear. Indeed, I can see that in a multi-users > machine sudo is useful. I just don't agree on the Ubuntu policy of > using sudo instead of root by default, assuming that it provides more > security. Ubuntu is designed for Linux newbies, those conditioned to the Windows way of working. Give them a root password and they will soon get fed up with typing it whenever they need to do $something and just log into the desktop as root. It is easy enough to enable root access in Ubuntu, but you do have to work out how to break it for yourself. --=20 Neil Bothwick Diarrhoea is hereditary, it runs in your genes. --Sig_/sOvrYU=v1479YLuIUg_VxYV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk69vh4ACgkQum4al0N1GQMFRwCgv5pSEEzI//baiyW9nNRDFGhc RSYAoIRNDi3fH/oCUUMPMQFXatZcVDgl =GIGt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/sOvrYU=v1479YLuIUg_VxYV--