Fedora User Guide

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 13:41:12 UTC 2005


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.

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