On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 04:42, Manfred Wassmann wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > [...] > > > You know, Mac OS X actually handles this pretty well: the first user > > account that's created is by default an "Admin" (which places them into > > /etc/sudoers, and enables their UI sudo to work for them). Every > > additional user that's created is by default not an Admin, but can > > easily be made one. > > > > It doesn't seem that bad of an idea to make the Debian installer just > > make the user account that's created on install be an admin by default. > > I don't like that. One more neeedlessly hardwired special UID. Why not > just having an admin submenu (-structure) taking all entries that need > special privileges to run? I'd prefer that one, too. And perhaps a debconf question 'show admin entries to normal users by default', so the advanced user could enable the admin menu in his personal menu preferences. cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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