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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 2.1
Date: 12 Jun 1995 13:15:15 +0200
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HD Associates <hdslip@iii1.iii.net> wrote:
>>alias a: 'echo -n'
>(... Unix commands aliased to echo -n ...)
>>
>>No. I'd rather suggest people refrain from being root if they don't know what
>>they are doing. Otherwise, the painful experiences will only be delayed.
>
[plea for DOS migrators deleted]
>I'm pleased to say some are still "on the air" with FreeBSD.
>
>Us advanced types can just shudder and remove the silly aliases.
I won't think of a horde of aliases. There should be a thing like
`command.com' around (and if it ain't there, it's just two pages of
Perl script :), so why not offer those users a more DOS-like shell?
In addition, we need a fine way for things like mounting floppies and
CDROMs for non-privileged users. The Linux idea (special flag in
/etc/fstab) seems interesting, but seriously, i much prefer my own
suid Perl script to say something like:
do-mount cd
do-mount floppy
instead of
mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd0a /cdrom
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
so i'm using the script even when i'm working as root. :) We should
provide the people with some form of a menu system (even a simple text
based one might do) where they can perform thoses steps; it should
even allow the non-privileged users to do all usual actions.
The biggest problem: we need more volunteers...
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)