On Sunday 30 December 2001 08:07 am, you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 07:48:54 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Here is the reply I received from "elx" re: some short-coming with their > > distro. Its almost scary to think that anyone would be foolish enough to > > run their system mainly as root. Their approach is starting to look and > > feel ___ almost Micro$oftish :( Has anyone been able to find any source > > code on their site? If its there, I'm definately missing it, I've looked > > but no joy. > > > > Subject: Re: elx linux > > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:24:49 +0530 (IST) > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hi Ted, > > > > This spell check is not matured in K mail , it is still an experimental > > feature which soon be made proper. In linux world every bit of code is > > written with great passion and on the best effort basis. But we are > > working to make things better. ELX believes that the main user will > > always be root and therefore it does not give full priviledges to all > > users. To grant access to any device you can log in as root and run > > open your file manager and can grant access to any device or file. > > This is more of a secuirty feature. > > > > Please do keep sending your suggestions and input. > > Ted, I believe you are misinterpreting their response (Indian British > English?). What I think they are saying is logon as root and change the > permissions to grant access to a particular device which is exactly what > I've had to do for /dev/dsp on many distros to get any sounds played by > mere mortals.
not really since and I quote "ELX believes that the main user will always be root " seems very clear to me. This is not a good thing. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
