On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:38:26 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Darren New wrote:
>> It's just hard to explain to someone who only uses the computer
>> casually.
> 
> For example, try to explain to someone who doesn't know the difference
> between a root account and a normal account why UAC is a good thing. :-)
> 
> As far as I can tell, UAC is sudo and nothing more or less, except that
> even the root account is required to use sudo to do rooty things, unless
> you turn it off. Seems like a reasonable comprimise.

Except that something like kdesu asks you once for the root password (per 
run), but UAC asks you incessantly (in my own experience - which is 
somewhat limited) whether or not you want to allow X, Y, or Z to happen.  
It's not content with just asking once.

Jim

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