root password setting unoffered at install

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:00:53 +0100
Gilles Gravier <Gilles at Gravier.org> wrote:

> Consider this some form of very simplistic role based access control. 
> Your normal user has the administrator role when it enters the correct 
> password. Unfortunately not much fine grain control, but still... better 
> than full access to root. :)

This is not so - on the contrary, the original point of sudo was to give
fine-grained control over which users and/or groups were allowed to run
particular applications, or perform defined administrative tasks.

man sudoers

has more information. 

apropos sudo

Points to even more :)

There is nothing at all simplistic about it, as you will discover if you
read further on the subject.

Peter

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