Security.

[Neil Woolford]

At 09:08 11/02/05, you wrote:

>As installed, my user password is also my root password. Does this not
>mean that if anyone found out my user password, they could also get
>into the system as root and so do what they liked with it? With the
>other Linux distros I have used, one needs a separate root password, so
>making it much harder for others to do any damage. Sorry, but to me
>this smacks of the pre-XP Windows wide-openness.

If anyone could either explain the reason, or point me to where to find
it, I would be grateful.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RootSudo is a discussion of these issues in
general terms.

Neil 


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