users and groups

[Petre Stojanov]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The big problem I see is the Ubuntu use of sudo to get root.

Any user can do that making users and groups not work at all.

How do you fix THAT?
>

Not exactly.  "sudo" is powerful tool for delegating privileges to user and
groups.
When u install Ubuntu the user account that u create is added to group
"admin" by default,
which in return has been granted with root privileleges in /etc/sudoers
[%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL]
Every additional user don't have this priviliges,
and only user with root or specific privileges can grant users and groups
some or all privilages by editing the /etc/sudoers.

Petre
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