Software installation opinions needed

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Thu Sep 27 01:10:49 AEST 1990


In article <929 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
> In this way the not-so-experienced system administrator has the chance
> to make things right without understanding (at least as right as if
> all the steps were immediatly done during installation with a script
> running as root).

And to protect against total users have the last step in the script be:

echo 'Enter root password here to complete installation, or hit return'
echo 'to complete the installation manually.'
su root -c root-install
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