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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Software installation opinions needed
Message-ID: <-606DIG@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 26 Sep 90 15:10:49 GMT
References: <25908@shamash.cdc.com> <1990Sep19.125944.6489@cs.utk.edu> <1990Sep20.160212.241@naitc.naitc.com> <649@silence.princeton.nj.us> <929@mwtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <929@mwtech.UUCP> martin@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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