[haiku-development] Re: GSoC project
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:47:42 +0200 CEST
Le Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:10:28 +0200, PulkoMandy a écrit :
> 2010/4/8 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
> >
> > On 2010-04-08 at 11:56:18 [+0200], PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx
> > > wrote:
> >> > Hmm you're distorted by Ubuntu, root does exist, I've seen him !
> > > > :P
> >>
> >> I'm using Debian. But still, I'm not sure root should be treated
> > > as an
> >> user at all, except for handling emergency stuff... Am I missing
> > > other
> >> cases where you really want to login as root ?
> >
> > For administrative tasks that go beyond sudo'ing some program it is
> > quite
> > handy to be able to log in as root. Besides "sudo bash" is usually
> > allowed
> > anyway.
>
> That's right for an unix OS. They usually don't let root log in an X
> session, and I think we'd want to do the same. But I think this needs
> some thinking about which things are root-only and which are allowed
> to the user. I'm not sure the unix way is that perfect for a desktop
> OS like Haiku. Does multiuser necessarily implies having a root
> account ? Is the Windows way (letting one or more users having
> "administrator" privileges) better ? how does mac os X handle it ?
OSX uses the sudo scheme.
Though as with ubuntu I always end up running "sudo bash" anyway,
because it's painful to have to sudo every single command when you are
doing admin stuff in batch.
François.
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