Re: Fedora User Guide

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Paul W. Frields wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 18:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  
>
> > > Although the line of "root password required" is (IMHO) a great place to
> > > divide the guides, there may be a call for a *short, sweet* "Getting
> > > Started Guide" that discusses only the MOST basic tasks and talks about
> > > the differences between the roles of user and administrator. 
> > >
> > >      
> > It has been pointed out before but any tool that requires a password for 
> > a desktop functionality is broken. We should divide by functionality. 
> > Not by whether it requires a root password or not
> >    
>
> Can you give some examples?  I am trying to figure out which tools this
> would apply to.  I don't recall getting password prompted for anything
> which *wasn't* a global system setting change that would affect other
> users on a managed system.
>  
I was talking about a general idea, not specific bugs

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/msg00161.html

regards
Rahul