Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:34:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rasmus Bøg Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Single user linux |
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> taking place as a clueless user, i think i should be able to do anything.
Yeah, I thought so when I started using Linux. I stopped thinking so, when I accidentally blew up the FS on my datadrive and lost nearly _everything_ I had written for 2 years...
> i'd be happy to accept proof that multi-user is a solution for > clueless user, not because it's proven on servers. but because it is > a solution by definition.
Let's turn the question the other way. It's you trying to convince us, that everyone needs root access. What does a clueless user need root access for?
Programming - no. Writing documents - no. Surfing the web - no. Reading email - no. Installing kernels - yes (but a clueless user won't do this). Running viruses, that blow up the entire system - yes. Installing software - yes. But how often do you do that? And is the 'su' really so hard to remember?
If you really want to have different uids, why not hack xdm/login to autologin. And when it autologins to a specific user, why do you want different id's?
And if you really want everybody to have access to all files, you can just do a 'chmod 777 /'. Perhaps set it up as a cronjob to run daily?
Besides you write, that a distro shipping single-user is evil. So you want the clueless user to recompile his own kernel to enable single-user mode (why do at all call it 'single-user' when you still have different ID's?)... The clueless user probably does not even know what the kernel is - and then have to recompile it...
Rasmus
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