On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:00:53PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
This all strikes me as a weird and bewildering tangle. I find Ubuntu's marginalising of root irritating anyway, but the rest of it seems just crazy. And this is supposed to be "Linux for the masses" ...
Maybe it's just a bug of the live CD? I've not had any problems with printing as a user here but i've never run the live CD other than to install with.
I also don't find the having to use sudo thing such a bad idea. I've seen far too many documents on the net telling people to "make such and such work, login as root and do this and this and this" getting your root user back isn't much work for someone who knows what they're doing, and if you don't know then maybe you should take the time to read a few docs and understand what's going on. Given one of the main problems with windows has been its reliance on everyone having admin rights (it isn't much fun trying to run an XP desktop as a "normal" user and use admin for installing everything) and the problems that has created, it gives very good credence for people having to use sudo.
Thanks Adam