[Techtalk] Sound card gone missing - OSS/ALSA woes

TraceyC grrliegeek at elenari.net
Thu Mar 15 13:26:13 UTC 2012


On 03/14/2012 12:59 PM, Little Girl wrote:
> Aw, poor guy. You might want to change that to only having him add or
> remove things under supervision, and then praise him wildly for any
> successes because he sounds very enthusiastic, and it would be a
> shame to squelch that. I suspect he'll make a very good Linux guru one
> day. (:
I agree that encouraging his enthusiasm for learning is a good thing. It 
seems, however, he can't be trusted to abide by a verbal request to not 
add or remove anything. As a sysadmin, I'd restrict him to a wheel 
account without the ability to break things that only root can break. A 
wheel account has the flexibility to add more ability to change things 
as he learns while keeping him to the agreement to not futz with things 
he shouldn't.

-- 
Tracey C


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