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On 8/5/2010 10:43 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">That will never happen on a un-modified out of the box system. In
fact you can't do this on MS Windows or Mac OS X either. No OS will
let one user copy files that belong to another user, let alone files
that belong to an administrative user. Solaris, Linux, Windows XP,
VMS, none of them allow this
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<font size="-1">Well, under Windows, if my current user is defined as
Administrator, and the UAC is disabled, I can do that. <br>
The same under Linux, the only problem is that Ubuntu does not allow
you to be an administrator (root).... that's the main problem....<br>
They think that I could hurt myself.... I use Windows since 25 years,
always running as an administrator, with<br>
full privileges of potentially destroying everything, but those 25
years have passed without that happening... <br>
But now the assemblers of the Ubuntu distro think they are smarter than
me... please let the root user disabled<br>
as default, but give clear and detailed instructions on how to
re-enable it....<br>
<br>
But thanks to another member of this group now I have those
instructions...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/04/16/how-to-login-to-ubuntu-as-root-user/">http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/04/16/how-to-login-to-ubuntu-as-root-user/</a><br>
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<pre wrap="">You can't believe how many
used dragged the "system" folder to the trash. Not much worked after
that. Modern OSes prevent you from doing things like that.
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Modern OSes should <u><b>double warn</b></u> me against that, but not
completely disable me from doing that... this<br>
is my concept of freedom... if I want to destroy <u><b>MY</b></u> PC,
I should be able (after having received a warning)<br>
to do that, if so I did choose... I don't like to be hand-held when I
walk my way...<br>
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73 Alberto I2PHD<br>
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