Comments on: LFCA: Learn User Account Management – Part 5

By: James Kiarie

James Kiarie — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 07:58:09 +0000

Hey Dragonmouth, while that is true, good practice recommends that if you are not performing any administrative tasks as an administrator, you should stick to running the system as a sudo user and only switch to root when you really need elevated privileges.

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:23:19 +0000

“For this reason, running commands as the root user is highly discouraged. Instead, good practice demands that you should configure a sudo user.”

A misleading statement. To administer the system, an administrator must have free and unlimited access.

A “sudo” access is granted to regular users when we wish to allow them to have severely limited root capabilities.

By: Gérard Talbot

Gérard Talbot — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:18:06 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

James and/or Ravi,

I agree with dragonmouth’s recommendation: to use and reuse consistently the same verb (and vocabulary) throughout the series of articles.

Beginners are often sensitive to words and to the precise meaning of words and may wonder or hesitate if the verb (use, run, invoke, type in, issue, execute) changes.

Gérard

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:25:08 +0000

In reply to dragonmouth.

@Dragonmouth,

Thanks for the tip, will keep note of it next time…

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:20:47 +0000

Your articles are instructional and they are very good at that. But the focus needs to be on the technical, not on the literary. So, there is no need to use every possible synonym for the word “use” (run, invoke, type in, issue, execute) as in “use the following command”.

Keep it simple. Pick one and stick with it throughout the article. It is a bit disorienting, when reading an article, to be told to “run” one command, “issue” another one, “execute” the third one and “invoke” the fourth one. It makes one pause to figure out the meaning of the verb used.