Re: states: family, personal (aka mono-user)

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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 12:15, Zackary Deems wrote:
> Simple fact of the matter is, 100% of first time linux users will not
> know about console mode.  Another simple fact.. supporting these guys
> WHEN they break their system by switching to family mode without adding
> any users or changing passwords, is a serious multi-hour pain in the
> ass.  If you're adamant about changing this setting, we need to get
> together as a group and talk about it, because this is going to have
> support ramifications.
I have been giving some thought to it and there are various poitns.
1) It won't allow you to remain in Family mode if there are no users (or at 
least, it will warn the user a lot).
2) Even if there are users, it'll warn the user when going to family mode.
3) If we only make security on X, we are going to end like windows, instead of 
controlling who has access to something, we control which programs someone 
can run... leaving the console (and other things) open would make the totall 
thing kinda pointless even when most of users doesn't know about the console.
4) I was thinking about a rescue mode that can be run from the grub or 
something like that, like Window's failsafe, what do you think ?
Thanks.
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