Privileges (was: Sudo even more secure)
Étienne Bersac
bersace03 at laposte.net
Sun Mar 26 19:07:38 BST 2006
Hello,
>> Even more, currently, users can install what they want
>> with autopackage or autotools in their $HOME (e.g. --prefix=
>> $HOME/.programs). They just have to had $HOME/.programs/bin to their
>> path.
>
> Autotools isn't something you want to explain to end-users, but 'klik'
> looks quite okay for people who want to enable this for their users.
do you know what is autopackage ? http://autopackage.org/
>> Do we have to enable installing for other users ? This is quite
>> the %admin job !
>
> The problem with that is that %admin isn't always around, so he has to
> give admin rights to the "least inexperienced" user... ;-)
The one who intall/init the computer.
Really, privileges are well distributed in ubuntu.
Étienne.
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