On Sunday 27 April 2008 11:55:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Sudo is so much better and infinitely less intrusive. It's also a solved
> problem years ago. Why didn't they use it?

NIH.

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On Sunday 27 April 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 27 April 2008 11:55:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Sudo is so much better and infinitely less intrusive. It's also a
> > solved problem years ago. Why didn't they use it?
>
> NIH.

Of course, silly me. I was forgetting who exactly the who in question
was :-)



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* Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> 'su -' and become root where everything is allowed.
> 'sudo' or a gui derivative. If the user has been authorized by root,
> just run the whole command with root priviledges as the user can
> obviously be trusted.

You could also try my su-wrapper - it maps specific uid+cmdline
to another uid+cmdline. Fine for things like allowing specific
users to dialup, etc.

> Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that they
> will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that doesn't
> need root to install. Hmmmm.

*rofl*
Well, that's just the "good old" M$ way ;-P


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On 27 Apr 2008, at 11:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:

...
Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that they
will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that doesn't
need root to install. Hmmmm.


Is this not - substantially - the same as the reason for the Portage
QA warning messages?



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On Monday 28 April 2008, Stroller wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2008, at 11:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > ...
> > Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that
> > they will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that
> > doesn't need root to install. Hmmmm.
>
> Is this not - substantially - the same as the reason for the Portage
> QA warning messages?
>


hehehe, well spotted :-)

Superficially similar, but very different in implementation. Portage
tells you about stuff that could be improved, it can be disabled by
those who don't know what to do about it and the user has the choice.

UAC just gets in your face like an annoying fruit fly buzzing round your
nose and won't go away. The user does not have a choice worth a damn
and is not in control


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:48 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once
> coreutils is gone?
>
> On Monday 28 April 2008, Stroller wrote:
> > On 27 Apr 2008, at 11:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that
> > > they will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that
> > > doesn't need root to install. Hmmmm.
> >
> > Is this not - substantially - the same as the reason for the Portage
> > QA warning messages?
> >
>
>
> hehehe, well spotted :-)
>
> Superficially similar, but very different in implementation. Portage
> tells you about stuff that could be improved, it can be disabled by
> those who don't know what to do about it and the user has the choice.
>
> UAC just gets in your face like an annoying fruit fly buzzing round your
> nose and won't go away. The user does not have a choice worth a damn
> and is not in control
>
>
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UAC can be disabled. Fairly easily, in fact:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-ua
c-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/

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