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 1RP3my-0006E1-9z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:57:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C01D221C1F6; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D708921C1F6 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:54:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnv2 with SMTP id v2so5982279ggn.40 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:54:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=k6A1ssJgJ+biWjykzdzsHMstkaOjJfL6vxzZoqK8j6s=; b=uKYzcK1LROghDkdKSwvCHUh9guLWOSW/bCaM/T2QZcUnVHY1hqzFKV7CpVpWLf2PGg QV3LaRd1IJ4kFdU5ql2dfZMRZNm+ZLJwmIMlHPC3/XNCMYmU4Uk273CeouLhKs7Fwy1e dYFNLSnmRk3adD2BPSNQDfFUvnw55ddB679JQ= Received: by 10.236.139.197 with SMTP id c45mr820593yhj.64.1321066493906; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:54:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-124-88.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.124.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f14sm13761333ani.8.2011.11.11.18.54.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:54:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBDDFFB.3020206@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:54:51 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <4EBD3738.9090203@gmail.com> <4EBD4224.7070307@gmail.com> <20111111211831.68ab7c63@rohan.example.com> <20111112003022.38784b7f@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111112003022.38784b7f@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 555de73f-f18e-488f-ad1b-18a1f4aa3801 X-Archives-Hash: 15738b10eeda0c8a068f5ea12053f010 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > > I worked it out then. lol Dale :-) :-)