Creation of User profiles at install

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 30.10.2006, 06:58 -0400 schrieb frank claessen:
> Hi all,
> 
> the way user profiles are being created at install strikes me as odd -
> in any way it differs from the way other distro;s do it. Normally you
> have to enter a password for the root account and then you can add a
> normal user.
> 
> Edubuntu asks for one user only and that is an administrative user. For
> security reasons I don;t think this is a good idea. Later on you can
> change the password for the root account while being logged an as the
> user that was created during installation ?!?!!!! Unbelievable!!
> 
sudo gives the admin (which is in fact the user you created during
install) a lot more fine grained control over what users can do and
whats forbidden for them ...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo


ciao
	oli
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