cross-platform virus

[Derek Broughton]

john wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:40:37AM +1000, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
>> most of the time they have never even heard of sudo) and they just leave
> 
> Perhaps su could print a message like:
>   If you do not know the root password, or the root account is disabled
>   (It is disabled by default on Ubuntu), you can still do system
>   administration with sudo. For example,
>   
>      sudo command-that-needs-root-access
>      
>   This will only require your own password, unless you do not have sudo
>   privileges.
> 
I understood that opening a terminal actually tells you something like that,
already, until you actually use sudo.  Last week, somebody on one of the
Ubuntu lists was complaining about that behaviour :-)
-- 
derek