Andrew Errington wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:56, you wrote:For that part you could also use chmod +s and a nice desktop-icon. That might reduce the frustration (on both sides) about wrong spelling.
On Feb 14, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
sudo then if their user account is compromised then only a subset ofIf it's a laptop, the most probable account compromise is someone
commands are available.
actually getting physical access to the machine. At which point it's
game over, they have the hard-drive, they have access to everything
(except extremely-well encrypted data, I guess - and there will
probably be none of that)
Correct.
So that's not a "real" risk :-) Theft is a real risk.
If your newbie wants to become more advanced, sudo is a better
mechanism to explore than "su -" is ...
I'm not sure he does. He wants email and web. I'll think about it but what I will probably end up with sudo for just restarting the mwave driver.
Andy
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