New install, report and questions

[Erik Bågfors]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 01:12:25 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:36:38PM +0200, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 
> > After installation I created another user to test, that one didn't have
> > admin rights and cannot use sudo.  That user still has all the
> > root-utilities in the menu, he/she can try to use synaptic but it doesn't
> > work. The first time I tried I got a question asking for the users
> > password, then nothing happened, no error message, no nothing.
> >
> > After that I don't even get asked a password, it just doesn't do anything.
> >
> > Either that user shouldn't get those items in the menu or there should be
> > a "you don't have administrative rights"-message showing up when trying to
> > use them.
> >
> > Also, is it possible to change the setup for sudo so that instead of the
> > installer adding the user to /etc/sudoers it could add a group to it??
> > That way it would be very easy to make a user an administrator when
> > creating a new user by simply adding that user to the group.
> 
> For now, we default to a relatively safe configuration where the user has
> access to devices, but not to root.  This avoids a situation where the
> initial user gives away administrative privileges without realizing it.  In
> the future, when adding a new user in the GUI, you will be able to select to
> what extent the user should be privileged.

That's great!
But what about having all the settings-utils that you need root access
for in the menu.  They should be removed or a message that says "you
cannot use this" should show up.

BTW, I'm spreading the word of ubuntu at my office.  Right now the
third person is installing it. :)

Regards,
Erik