[NCLUG] root/superuser pwd question

[Brian Wood]

Scott Scriven wrote:
> * 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.

Some of those automated tools have a directive you can put in a standard
config file that tells the GUI system to leave that line, or the next
one, alone, similar to a comment mark.

But you can't please everyone I guess, and it's nice to have so many
choices, it's only with the dedicated devices that you're stuck with the
maker's choice.

beww