[NCLUG] root/superuser pwd question

[Scott Scriven]

* Brian Wood <bwood at beww.org> wrote:
> Someone who learned Unix from Ubuntu is in serious trouble if 
> faced with a failed GUI, ...

That seems to be the way of things these days.  The same could be 
said of most major distros.  I can't stand the GUI config tools 
on Red Hat or SuSE either, but most of the users I've seen can't 
do without.  That's fine though, it's part of being "ready for 
the desktop".  People dig this stuff, and complain like crazy if 
they ever see a config file or a command line.  They call it the 
"red pill".

The only part which really bugs me is when the "easy" config 
tools work in such a way that they break traditional approaches.  
I've seen this, for example, on my new n810 tablet, which keeps 
clobbering several important config files.  The GUI config tools 
use XML or SQLite natively and regenerate the active config files 
frequently with no regard for manual changes.


-- Scott