Kubuntu experience

[Lars Hallberg]

On 4/18/05, Sam Tygier <samtygier at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>>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?)
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This is the part wher improvments is possable:

1) The gui sudo tool could:

Integrate more with sudo, check first if the user have the needed sudo 
powers and then ask for the user password and run sudo.

If not, check if root is enabled and then ask for root pw and us su.

If nether, give an explanation. Curent behavur - menuitem just don't do 
anything looks broken :-(

Then You could simply enable root and take avay sudo powers from users 
if You prefer su. And it just works everywhere.

2) Sume gui tool for configuring sudo. Att least manage witch users 
shuld have sudo power and enable / dissable the 'cashing' of login (so 
You always have to type in the password, not only the first time).

Preferably a possability to limit what different users can do. Att least 
one 'ubuntu admin tools class' and one 'general root' class.

Sudo config is not completly trivial, and a mistake might be a security 
risk.

/LaH