[Discuss] sudo

[Jeremy Van Veelen]

Bernie,

Have you considered Haiku, it’s a free BeOS and it sounds like it has that
single user mode gui you may be looking for.

Jeremy

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 10:07 PM bctill <bctill at ece.uvic.ca> wrote:

> On 2023-04-03 17:42, Peter Willis wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi BCLUG --
> >>
> >> "especially if one considers a lot of the applications as users, since
> >> having their own user & group allows for the file permissions"
> >>
> >> What an interestng way of looking at it...
> >>
> >> "Try `man sudoers` for details"
> >>
> >> And that's even more interesting.  Thanks!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> -- Bernie.
> >>
> >
> >
> > It should also be noted that new users, added  to your system, are not
> > automatically added to the 'sudo'  group.
> >
> > Hence new users will not have sudo access to your system unless
> > specifically given those rights by an admin (you).
> >
> > MS Windows also has multiuser and not all users added to that are
> > admins either.
> > So no difference really.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Hi Peter --
>
> Yes, you're right, but I never had more than one user on my XP system,
> never set a password, and never used a login screen.  None of this ever
> caused a problem.
>
> Truth be told, there were a number of accounts on the machine, but I
> disabled all of them except Administrator, Default User (namely, me),
> and a dummy user that Visual Studio created to run some of the
> enterprise-edition development tools.  Once I figured out how to give
> admin powers to the default user, I never used the Administrator account
> again.
>
> One of the few things I disliked about XP was the way it presented the
> desktop as though it was the root of everything else on the machine,
> when actually it was just an awkwardly-named directory buried deep in
> the tree.  I never used My Documents or any of the "standard"
> subdirectories of the desktop because it made me feel disoriented.
>
> I thought of my directory structure not as a tree but as a forest, in
> which the trees were called A:\, B:\, and so on.  The number of disk
> drives eventually increased to 14, and of course each one had its own
> root directory.
>
> Everything I installed was installed for "all users", because I knew
> that there would only ever be one.  This enormously simplified system
> administration and registry maintenance, which resulted in extraordinary
> system stability.  I ran that system 24/365 for more than two decades,
> and never had to turn it off except to work on the hardware.
>
> Sadly, that system had to be retired because no one writes drivers for
> it anymore, or maintains the applications that run on it.  Therefore I
> can no longer migrate it to newer hardware, or maintain compatibility
> with newer file formats or protocols.
>
> Hence, I am now looking to feret out the best practices that will allow
> me to create a similarly simple, stable and reliable environment under
> Linux.
>
> I'm also looking to configure something really lean and hard, not unlike
> Alpine or BunsenLabs, on which to run a web server, an email stack, and
> a deep-packet-inspecting firewall... not all on the same physical
> machine, of course.
>
> Regards,
> -- Bernie.
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