On 2 March 2011 12:17, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > Please beware that you mess up the quoting slightly - often first line of a > quote has too few indentation markers, making it
display as if you are quoting someone else! > Sorry, it's getting tricky to follow. It's been a while since I've replied to mailings in this form. (and please don't blame it on your mail application: ultimately you are in > charge and can use a different one if it serves you badly!) > > Oh, I appreciate that. Mistakes are easy to make. And please don't assume what I'll blame! > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:40:27AM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote: > >> On 2 March 2011 11:01, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 08:10:57AM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote: >>> >>> On 1 March 2011 22:33, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:04:02PM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote: >>> >>> I have 5 users in my household. I have 1 admin, 2 power users and 3 >>>> users. Those groups each have different privileges mapped out in sudo. The >>>> power users are allowed to restart apache and kick off backup. The admin >>>> can >>>> become ultimate root. All valid users can map to one central user to manage >>>> a bittorrent server. >>>> >>>> >>> Ok, so in your household you are sysadmin. >>> >>> >> I am but how could this case possibly be configured by the Debian sudo >> package? Or what if the roles of the people in the household change? Or what >> if more people are needed or a new role? >> > > Ahem - you cut off the part where I tried explain that. :-P > > Please try reply again to my former post, and comment also on that section > right below above quote. I don't think it did explain it. You mentioned a case of an 8 headed machines but that isn't relevant here. When I'm after is a particular outline of how the case I gave could be done using the debian package system. Explicitly, how would the sudo package handle the pretty standard case I outline? > But you know what? It will stay that way, if you users of Debian do not > expect more, and file bugreports about the flexibility you'd want Debian to > provide. > > So in a sense your very attitude is to blame for Debian being as it is! I don't disagree with that at all, or much of what else you wrote. I will educate myself some more on Debian, but I still don't believe that package system should do all the system configuration.
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