Things I already hate about Kubuntu (new user)

[ruscook]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 23:22 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:


> > The point of this is to avoid the need for a root account, which 
> > damages security.
> 
> All Unix systems, including all versions of Ubuntu, have a root
> account.  A root account does not damage security.
> 
> The people on this list disagree as to whether a system is more
> or less secure when sudo is used for everything.  I think we can
> all agree it's less convenient.

Not at all. My 78 year old father can do a few admin tasks because
gksudo is setup and he KNOWS his own password. It also means he can't be
permanently logged in as root and forget and do damage to the install.

When he had windows with admin access I used to reinstall between 1 to 3
times a year. Now I upgrade and I've NEVER had to reinstall.

I personally *choose* to set a root password on my on desktop and
server, I don't need it, I'm just paranoid incase my account gets
corrupt. That said, I could use a recover CD but a separate admin
account is easier to just have around. I don't need it to admin the
system. I can get a root terminal either by sudo, su, or logging in as
root (never need this last). Simple day to day admin I do with single
sudo commands or sometimes with Webmin. More complicated application
configs I use sudo or Su to give a full root shell. I'm not a guru, but
I do manage a few services mta, imap, pop, apache, samba, webmin etc..

Bottom line, Linux/Unix is SO flexible there's a dozen ways to do
things, some more technically correct than others but not all are wrong,
so mindset, individual convenience etc, play a large part. 

For my father sudo is a great convenience and he needs to know less. For
me, I keep a root password in the background but find sudo fine as long
as I can get a root terminal when I need one.

Kind Regards Russell
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