At 12:56 AM +0100 8/27/06, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: > >> At 2:13 PM +0100 8/26/06, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> ... >>>I see I have _two_ versions of system-config-printer >>>on my laptop, in /usr/bin (which takes priority) and /usr/sbin : >>>----------------------------------- >>>[tim@elizabeth ~]$ ls -ls `which system-config-printer` >>>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 23 13:10 /usr/bin/system-config-printer -> >>>consolehelper >>>[tim@elizabeth ~]$ ls -ls /usr/sbin/system-config-printer >>>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 23 13:10 /usr/sbin/system-config-printer -> >>>printconf >>>----------------------------------- >>>Both versions are supplied by the same (recent) system-config-printer rpm. >> >> One of them authenticates you first, the other one just executes the tool. > > >Whatever they do, it is crazy to have two different programs >with the same name. Which one would you choose? The one that always brings up the Authentication dialog, even when run as root, or the one that doesn't authenticate, so a normal user could never run it? Would our lives be simpler if root commands had different names from non-root versions? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
