From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bde6706c124e6eed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Filenames in Ada Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:59:05 +0000 Organization: Pushface Message-ID: References: <1653090.31FM62oI6I@linux1.krischik.com> <1255659.7PSTQaQJvX@linux1.krischik.com> <1839239.KAMAmvIqvL@linux1.krischik.com> <992vp1pv50m3oqoliarp0s5lbi23n9otih@4ax.com> <1993143.vyPih64Mhk@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1134838739 20569 62.49.19.209 (17 Dec 2005 16:58:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P8BHJzmsRlZWRKH5az7EUyStvAc= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6908 Date: 2005-12-17T16:59:05+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik writes: > I permanently have a root console open on my system and when I use a > Linux system where I don't have the root password I feel like a > cripple. > > I don't feel that way on VMS - there is a SET PRIVILEGE command > there. I don't see the difference between SET PRIV and sudo, really (of course SET PRIV has all that feature set re: AUTHPRIV etc!)