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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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?
>
>
I would do it myself. I don't let anyone mess with my OS. I might let
someone surf the net with my rig or use OOo or something but not the OS
itself.
They would get over it I'm sure. lol
Dale
:-) :-)