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You think average Joe User needs to be root or an admin capable of using sudo, to format a USB stick, or use a printer already connected to the computer? There
by cmurf 10y ago
You think average Joe User needs to be root or an admin capable of using sudo, to format a USB stick, or use a printer already connected to the computer? There is something that a locally logged in user is privileged to do without needing to be or become root.
Apple and Microsoft have tossed out their window managers more than once also. X is older than anything they've had.
- bandrami 10y agoYou think average Joe User needs to be root or an admin capable of using sudo, to format a USB stick, or use a printer already connected to the computer? I do, yes, which is why I avoid things like PAM and all the various FOO-kits (sadly Slackware has since succumbed to consolekit, which is why I've been moving to OpenBSD). I want to know that anything I do as my user without su or sudo or doas (depending) will not have an impact outside of my home directory. (Though to be clear, I think a display server could conceivably be justified for a dedicated non-root user -- fbterm seems like a good model here: getty hands over the VT to a user who has write access to the framebuffer.)