that darned ROOT problem

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 07:52 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> Giving unrequested sudo permission to the first user account is a
> MAJOR
> SECURITY HOLE. 

I don't see how it is. This is the user who installs the PC. *Of course*
he/she has total control. You can't prevent it and ignoring it does not
change it. What stops the installing user from putting a trojan
into /usr/bin during the install? Nothing.