[ltp] Preferred distro for Thinkpads?
Brian D. Ropers-Huilman
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:16:05 -0500
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sudo has been around for a long, long time and is immensely useful.
Honestly, I see SELinux extensions taking over for sudo in the near future
as the ACL capabilities are more granular.
Jaime Iniesta said the following on 2005-08-15 11:11:
> Mmmm... the sudo thing on Ubuntu does not look like a bad idea after
> reading this. Still, I'm more used to the distinction between root and
> common users...
>
> On Fedora+Gnome, being a normal user you can still access to root-only
> programs like system-config-*... you just click on the icon and then
> you're prompted for root password. I think it's similar on Ubuntu,
> you're asked for your user password to gain root access with that
> program. Is it that way also on Debian Sarge?
>
> Jaime
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