-=> Nelgin wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ne>   Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: install:nix
 Ne>   By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Thu Oct 06 2022 20:23:43

 >  >  > An improvement, perhaps, but still...  my thinking is that somebody
 >  >  > who doesn't (already) know they can't create /sbbs without being root
 >  >  > isn't going to know how to do the "run as root" that you added.  They
 >  >  > don't know *how* to run that command as root.

 Ne> You're making assumptions that the sbbs account that was setup
 Ne> (as you say in the wiki article, let's assume), then they may not
 Ne> have given the user sudo permissions, so are you going to mention
 Ne> then also? Then...if they didn't know how to run something as
 Ne> root, how would they have created the account in the first place?

No argument with any of that...  I think on many n00b-friendly distros 
nowadays, you can make a user account with a GUI applet that only 
requires your own password to authenticate, so perhaps they made the 
'sbbs' user that way.  I know, that's another assumption.  It's nearly 
impossible to cover all possible scenarios for this, without a 
ridiculously long instruction document.

 Ne> Then again, I think someone setting up a bulletin board for the
 Ne> first time is likely to pick the OS they know. I don't most
 Ne> people who have only ever used Windows are going to say, "Ah,
 Ne> Synchronet, I think I'll put that on an OS I know nothing about".

Certainly.  I think the edit(s) have improved the explanation, though, 
and that was the goal.  It's better than it was.  Maybe I'll have 
another go at it if I come across any leftover motivation...  ;-)


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