users and root

[dave s]

On Monday 20 Feb 2006 18:20, Luca Mollica wrote:
> > First, you may want to try the Ubuntu approach of not having a root
> > user.  It has advantages and disadvantages.  I didn't like it at
> > first, but now I do.
>
> Ok, I have read all the pages about this issue on the wiki page of
> kubuntu but at the moment I explicitly desire to have a root user on at
> least one machine of the two I had set up with Kubuntu.
>
> > Second, on any of your Linux or other Unix systems, type 'man sudoers'
> > for information about how the sudo system works and how to change it
> > so none of the regular users have root access via sudo.
>
> Ok ... unfortunately the usage of sudoers is not really common among
> not-debian users .... in three years dedicated to suse I had only
> learned what sudo is and that's it. Good time for learning deeply how to
> use sudoers logins.
> Thanx for the answer
>
> LM
>
> > --
> > John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own

This might be of interest ..

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-34089.html

Dave