Fedora User Guide

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul W. Frields wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 18:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>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. 
>>>
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>>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
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>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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I was talking about a general idea, not specific bugs

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/msg00161.html

regards
Rahul