sudo & accounts

[Steve Feehan]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:03:11PM +0200, Alain Muls wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I installed a couple of days ago Ubuntu on the PC of my sun. Since I do
> not want to authorize him to install software on the system, I created
> the first account with my name/password, say daddy/passwd. Then I
> created a user son/sonpwd and started organising his desktop and firefox
> and so on. When I needed to install software, I thought I would be able
> to do it with my (daddy's) passwd, but this did not work. I could only
> do it by giving my son's passwd (sonpwd). This I find quite odd, is it a
> mistake of mine that I think that the sudo passwd should be the passwd
> from the first (trusted) created user?
> 
> Best regards,

It's always the current user's password that is required for sudo.
What the user is permitted to do is controlled by the contents of
/etc/sudoers. See: 

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo?highlight=%28sudo%29

-- 
Steve Feehan