Kubuntu experience

[Sam Tygier]

mac os x uses the sudo model by default, so it can't be that bad.

i supose if you have a system with many users and one admin, then it makes sense for the users to be users and the admin to be root.

for me (and i imagine most ubuntu users) i am the only person who uses my computer (appart from my homes mates checking their email, and my sister playing pingus). i am the admin. from a conceptual point of view, why should i have two accounts? i am one person.

so why not have one account, sam, and thats what i log with everyday. sometimes i need to use synaptic, and i don't really want my housemates or sister to be able to mess around in synaptic, so it should require a password. this password is to prove that it is me, sam the admin, who wants to make a change. so it make sense that i type my password.

now this is only the default settings, and it is not at all hard to enable a root account. the only trouble is the gui tools seem to expect sudo (could they maybe check if the root account is enabled?)

also i think it is fairly easy with this model to have a play with the sudoers file and decide what commands you want to require a password or not.

and one final thing. most computer users have the same password for evrything, log on, hotmail, yahoo messenger, the phone banking secret word, etc. if they had a root account they would just use the same password. so to them a root account is no more secure from someone finding their password out.

sam