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It doesn't so much sound like sudo as: 1) User attempts non-permitted action. 2) Computer informs user about the policy problem. 3) Computer displays lis
by jws 17y ago
It doesn't so much sound like sudo as:
1) User attempts non-permitted action.
2) Computer informs user about the policy problem.
3) Computer displays list of accounts that are permitted to perform the action.
4) User enters a password for one of the permitted accounts.
5) Computer proceeds.
Trivial and obvious to ones skilled in the art, but not exactly sudo.
- aristus 17y agoExcept for the bit about listing accounts with the proper rights, this has been a part of OSX for as long as I can remember. Certainly before April 2005. Is it really that easy to patent a well-known process by adding a trivial thing?
- nopassrecover 17y agoSurely this "trivial thing" is what is being patented though. I mean let's say hypothetically MS sues Apple, well Apple can say sure there are similarities but we don't do the accounts bit.