[maemo-users] [maemo-users] Re: Brocked a third time

[From: James Sparenberg]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 08:42:56 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
> Zoran Kolic wrote:
> >> Why should the installer need to be root to do so?
> >
> > Looks like 770/800 is not ready for user-space apps. It is a new kind
> > of philosophy on unix field. Personaly, I don't like it much, but a
> > lot of folks have stars in the eyes.
>
> Yes it is a rather new philosophy. Ubuntu and Mac OS X embraced it already.
> It can help. A user app cannot mess with the system UNLESS the user
> enters a password.
> It's different than just clicking "OK" on a warning.

All Ubuntu did was use sudo .... and the password for the user.  So you go in 
and add NOPASSWD to your sudo file to get rid of that hassle. 

>
> > I'd rather get rid of sudo and mixture of root and user. And I deeply
> > disagree that my 770 is one-user-at-time-gadget.
>
> Yep I agree with that, even if I see no real use of a multi-user
> environment.
> Usually these devices are for personal use.
> But it'd be a nice welcome, I suppose.
>
> --
> anidel
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