Subj : Re: Windows Managers/Linspire-Lindows To : alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help From : rodsmith Date : Mon Jul 26 2004 03:21 pm In article , technomaNge writes: > > Rod Smith wrote: >> In article , >> technomaNge writes: > > >> Are you sure that Lindows gives an option to create an ordinary user on >> installation? I tried installing it a few months ago just to check it out, >> and I saw no such option when I installed it, and I saw no way to create >> ordinary users once it was installed. > > Well, I'm not gonna do a re-install just to find which step it is(grin). > > But on this machine I click the green L (start button?), select > Settings, select User Manager, give it the root password, select User, > select Add. > > To see if it took, select the green L, select Logoff/Quick Restart, when > it gets to the login screen select new user, enter password (if used), > click OK. Interesting. I looked for such options but didn't find them when I tried Lindows. I don't know whether I just missed them or if they really weren't there; perhaps this is a version difference. I installed the 4.5 developer's edition. What's yours? In any event, if this capability is in current versions of Lindows/Linspire, I'll moderate my criticism of it. Still, the fact that the default is to do everything as root is, IMHO, unforgivable -- just not quite AS unforgivable as delivering a Linux system with no option to create user accounts. > 'Course then you gotta reinstall all yer programs unless you know how > to give new user rights to use the other users programs. Are you saying the programs themselves can only be run by root???? If so, that's hideous. -- Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com http://www.rodsbooks.com Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking .