Re: User manual modification

Ian Silvester <[email protected]> wrote:

> Corrected diff attached, addressing all your comments bar one (see
> below).

Looks good to me, please commit.

> On 2012-03-11, at 10:36 AM, Fabian Keil wrote:
> 
> > Ian Silvester <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 5)
> > To me "run ... as sudo from an administrator account" means
> > executing sudo after logging into the administrator account.
> > 
> > Something like "run ... with administrator privileges using sudo"
> > would be more clear (to me).
> 
> Yes, on a 'normal' *nix system I'd entirely agree with you, but the
> default sudoers configuration on OS X is to allow only root and admin
> group accounts to sudo, hence my choice of wording. The first account
> configured when installing the OS is automatically put in the admin
> group (for most OS X users this is the only account they'll ever have!)
> and the only awareness most users have of the groups concept is a
> tickbox on the User preference pane labelled 'Allow this user to
> administer this computer'.

Thanks for the explanation, I agree that your wording is correct then.

Fabian

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