Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 18:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>Although the line of "root password required" is (IMHO) a great place
to
>>divide the guides, there may be a call for a *short, sweet* "Getting
>>Started Guide" that discusses only the MOST basic tasks and talks about
>>the differences between the roles of user and administrator.
>>
>>
>>
>It has been pointed out before but any tool that requires a password for
>a desktop functionality is broken. We should divide by functionality.
>Not by whether it requires a root password or not
>
>
Can you give some examples? I am trying to figure out which tools this
would apply to. I don't recall getting password prompted for anything
which *wasn't* a global system setting change that would affect other
users on a managed system.
I was talking about a general idea, not specific bugs
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/msg00161.html
regards
Rahul