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

[Paul Fox]

alan jhonn aguiar schwyn wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > I think that the shortcut is for make the activity "more amigable" to the 
 > people..But if you are in terminal, you know what are you doing..And put "su" 
 > and press enter, no is difficult..
 > +1 for remove it!
 > I remember than in our Xo's (Ceibal), without root, the activity crash when 
 > press thebutton.. The new versions of Terminal i'm not sure if make that.
 > Regards!
 > Alan
 > 
 > > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:38:04 -0300
 > > From: manuq at laptop.org
 > > To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
 > > Subject: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Terminal activity,	become root 
 > functionality issues
 > > 
 > > Forgot to raise this in today's Dev Meeting.
 > > 
 > > Become root presents the following issues.  Should we just remove it?
 > > 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

please drop the feature.  as implied by #2756 above, it entirely
breaks any unix models regarding how processes nest, or what it means
to "become root".  if "teaching" is part of our goal, that button
isn't helping.

paul

 > > 
 > > Cheers,
 > > 
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