prompts in command examples
Murray McAllister
murray.mcallister at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 22:20:33 UTC 2008
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 22:32 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>> Note that the su command removes the need for the user to look for
>> niggling prompt details. It also clarifies that the user should
>> expect a prompt for the root password.
>
> In part of that discussion with the Content Services team, we discussed
> the need for sudo to be enabled by default. One person was in favor of
> having each document specify how to enable sudo, but I don't like that
> rat hole. That is another point we could discuss, however, if any
> Anonymous Cowards are interested in fixing the common usage. Meanwhile,
> I'm advocating for a sane sudo-by-default in future Fedora versions so
> we can stop having to use 'su -c'.
>
> - Karsten
I leave this out. I have text preceding the command saying "Run the
following command as the Linux root user:", because I'm too lazy to
decide between sudo or su ;)
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