Re: Sysadmins

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:50 +0100, Emmanuel Colbus wrote:
> Btw, allowing (and also forcing) users to install they own software, and also 
> administrate it, would only result into a very great amount of lost time 
> (redundant work from the users), a very bad security (do you really think 
> every 
> user has the competence of a sysadmin?), and a waste of disk space and other 
> ressources. If sysadmins were only unneeded parasites, they would have 
> disappeared for long.

Why do you think that the installer should permit the installation of
unconfined software by non-administrative users?

Why do you feel that a user spending their own space is any of the
administrator's business?

shap