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[Stephan Hermann]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 10.10.2005, 01:31 -0700 schrieb Mike Bird:
> On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:38, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> > this sudo system is even better then the windows xp
> > system, where the first account has admin rights, without even
> > mentioning this.
> 
> This sudo system copies XP's dumb idea exactly.  The first Ubuntu user
> gets full sudo access without any warning.
> 
> Why can't Ubuntu concentrate on putting out a solid distro instead of
> reinventing the wheel ... badly?
> 
> There's no thought given to how this cute little sudo idea interacts
> with management tools (e.g. webmin and linuxconf) or standard scripts. 
> Two years or ten years down the road, when the first user has moved on,
> someone is going to delete the magic account and find themselves needing
> physical access to get control of their system again.
> 
> sudo can sometimes be very useful, but forcing sudo is just dumb.

Which is, regarding the standard install, exactly what we want.
If you need a root account, do a expert install.

Most of the new users but are not experts.

\sh