Subj : Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: install:nix
To   : Gamgee
From : Nelgin
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 02:36 am

  Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page changed: install:nix
  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.

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

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

Well, there maybe one or two I could name, but in general, I think you have to assume people know what they're doing.
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