sudo without password

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:52, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Saturday 10 June 2006 21:47, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:

> > This would be the ZoneAlarm style, which Linux really lacks,
> > unfortunately.
>
> My experience with this has been that there are basically two
> choices:
>
> 1.  Lock things down.  The user gets frustrated and uninstalls or
> turns off the firewall.
>
> 2.  Ask if something needs a port opened up going out.  User
> virtually always says yes.
>
> Either way, unless there is a lot of user training and
> understanding, I don't think these GUI firewalls do much good for
> the masses.

By gut feel, I'm inclined to agree with Scott. This is what large 
numbers of Windows users tend to do, so I can't see future Ubuntu 
users being any different.

Which raises the question: what _will_ work? I believe this question 
needs some attention and a solution now, before the malware problem 
hits Linux in a big way (which it surely will).

We know that popup dialogs ala ZoneAlarm are better than nothing, but 
are easy to ignore. We know that Ubuntu can easily install a 
well-configured system suitable for a desktop, but the Achilles heel 
is stuff installed afterwards.

I'd be most interested to hear people's opinions are proposals on this 
matter.

-- 
If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
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