Comment 5 for bug 1050983
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| Bill Albertson (bill-albertson) wrote | #5 |
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I just found this bug after about 1/2 an hour of searching on the internet. I'm not ok on hiding recovery mode behind a menu. Here is why:
1. It is not ok to think that a sys admin unfamiliar with Ubuntu, at 3am, will be figuring out that "advanced modes" is actually a menu. Yes, it sounds stupid, but at 3am doing something unfamiliar means it will get ignored, and just cause more headaches. Something like recovery mode should be in a fairly obvious location.
2. My situation today doesn't have to do with that scenario. Instead, I accidentally axed my group perms to sudo (which, while it would be a feature request, I think is a separate bug issue- if one is going to have a gui user management tool, it should allow checking to see if group membership is correct, some sort of type checking would be nice if you aren't even going to be able to create groups with the tool; that feature is missing from the user tool, which makes me wonder why ubuntu has one in the first place, as the tool appears to presume that anyone with permission levels to create users shouldn't be trusted to modify them).
Ok, back to my issue that arose. New installation. Created a minecraft users group. Added myself to test it. Forgot (due to distractions) that simply stating a group membership will ax me from the sudo group. Log out, log in. Can't do anything useful. Reboot to access recovery mode... oh, wait, there isn't a grub menu? Searching... Oh, ok, I have to hit shift...right. I hit shift- NO RECOVERY MENU. Why didn't I start poking around in a grub menu I wasn't familiar with yet? Because it is a grub menu I'm not familiar with yet.
3. I've never considered access to recovery mode an ADVANCED option. Maybe an emergency option, but not an advanced one.
Anyways, that is just my 2cents. I just find hiding something like recovery mode behind a menu a bit annoying. You can feel free to ignore it if you want- I've already updated my personal wiki with this new twist, so I could care less which direction Canonical jumps with it.