Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Apr 2008 21:47 UTC
User Account Control is easily one of the most hated features of Windows Vista, according to readers. The seemingly endless stream of UAC pop-ups, asking you to confirm this action or that action, just get in the way (and aren't particularly zippy, given the screen redraw). Others don't mind UAC, but there's no doubt it's a controversial 'feature' of the OS. At the RSA 2008 confab in San Francisco, Microsoft admitted that UAC was designed, in fact, to annoy. Microsoft's David Cross came out and said so: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross. Cross had more to say than just that: Microsoft is going to put more emphasis on whitelisting.
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2006-10-08
I think you're wrong here. Maybe you didn't know this - I'm not assuming that you posted in order to spread nonsense - but most modern Linux distributions feature an application installation subsystem, including tools to install, remove and update programs. It's common to include a GUI frontend here which helps you to find, automatically download and then install the application you want. There's no need to "get hands dirty" in a terminal window except you're intending to do something very special, for example, apply patches to a program and generate it from source. But as you surely will agree, that's not what average Linux users are doing.
I think that's what kdesu is intended to, and, as far as I know, KDE's Konqueror is able to be switched into root mode. But please check this yourself or ask for a confirmation. I'm no KDE user so I can't tell for sure. Of course, using a terminal window is not involved here, except you're choosing to do "strange" stuff like this:
% su -
Password:
# setenv DISPLAY :0.0
# konqueror &
# exit
% exit
But as I mentioned before, that's not what average Linux users are doing. Many advanced Linux users will agree that the example I gave looks quite strange. But please, check KDE's abilities and use the recommended means.
Then stop trying to install applications using the terminal window and use the recommended tools. Yes, it is that easy.