cross-platform virus

[Sasha Tsykin]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On 4/8/06, Pete Ryland <pdr at pdr.cx> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:13:35 +0200, Eric Feliksik wrote:
>>
>> If it does become a problem, we simply (try to) educate users that they
>> 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.
> 
> then there is no need for sudo.
> 
> The installer creates both a root and a normal user account, and
> doesn't install sudo.
> 
> We're back to the good old days of unix/linux before sudo became popular :)
> 
> --
> Daniel Robitaille
> 
I don't see why we should use sudo. It seems much more secure to just 
create an admin or root account, like almost every other Linux 
distribution in existence. Then you can configure sudo if you want to 
and have the expertise, but that applies to only a few people. And the 
vast majority of computer users do not require admin privileges at all. 
For example, the target market for Ubuntu is Windows users (see bug 
number 1 in Malone). They dont' even update their computer when they 
have windows. They do nothing other than surf the Internet, read email, 
and write documents, maybe a few listen to some music or watch a video. 
They also copy photos from their digital camera. The point is that 
giving them sudo is huge overkill, because they will never use it, as 
they will never know how or even want to know how to even update their 
current setup. My grandma is a case in point. When the "there are 
updates available for your computer" bubble shows up, she just ignores 
it. What does she need sudo for then? Better to solve th whole security 
issue and just remove it.

Sasha

Sasha