cross-platform virus

[Eric Feliksik]

Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:13:35 +0200, Eric Feliksik wrote:
>> [sudo...]
>> As soon as gnome/ubuntu actually becomes "linux for 
>> grandma", the shit will hit the fan, I'm afraid.
> 
> The simple answer is not to put grandma in the admin group, which is
> actually probably more realistic than it sounds.
> 

Sure, there will be no problem as long as we have no clueless users 
(admins). True. But we want to build a distribution usable (that is, 
maintainable) for human beings, right?

> If it does become a problem, we simply (try to) educate users that they

Look around! simply educate users, haha! You educate the users, I'll fix 
the global warming, ok? ;-) Users just take the shortest path that 
symptomatically brings the desired results.

> should do normal work with an account that doesn't have sudo privileges, and
> only log into an admin account when they need to do admin activities.
> Obviously a pain, but this is not a likely future anyway IMHO.
> 

The point is that this has been the windows-thing for *years*, and it is 
simply so unreasonably annoying that people always log in as admin. That 
is the shortest path. Sudo is here to *fix* that. It is a little better, 
because it's an extra door for malware. But in the end, the door is 
open. (At least with the current setup).