small enhancement idea for 'make installworld' et al.

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed May 12 15:06:12 PDT 2004


:It puzzled me too. I think, it's more of correct way to request for
:the password rather than give the failure because of error permission.
:
:Cheers,
:Mezz

    If I am not root, the last thing I ever want to have happen is for a
    program to make me root, or run something as root.

    I for one do not put a password on my root account, since it cannot be
    logged in from remotely and since I am the only one in the wheel group,
    so when I type 'su' or 'su -' from my main account, I become root.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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