Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: install:nix
  By: Gamgee to Nelgin on Fri Oct 07 2022 07:33 am

 > -=> 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...  ;-)

And try to remember when editing the wiki: Linux is not the only *nix supported by Synchronet. What's true for Linux may not be true for other Unix-like OSes.
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                                            digital man (rob)

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