[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Terminal activity, become root functionality issues

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:

> Forgot to raise this in today's Dev Meeting.
>
> Become root presents the following issues.  Should we just remove it?
>

Sometime ago I voted on removing it, but IIRC the
counter argument was that some teachers used it frequently to install
programs that need root access.
and they are adjusted on just clicking the button instead of writing ''su''.





> What is the gain of having it, isn't just a shortcut for manually
> writting "su"?
>
>  * http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3689
>  * http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2756
>  * http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2597
>
> Cheers,
>
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