[OT] Debian mailinglists [was: RE: Debian or Ubuntu?]

[Steve Lamb]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 7:48 am, Derek Broughton wrote:
> For instance, it's inherent in the design of
> Ubuntu that the first user set up on the system has sudo access.  Isn't it
> much nicer that Ubuntu configures /etc/sudoers for us, than then asking us
> to set it up ourselves (as if we even could...)?

    Nope.  Because sudo certainly isn't needed on a single-user system.  The
imposition of sudo on a single-user system is what requires the default
of the first user being injected into the sudoers file with ALL ALL
access.

    Even worse on a multi-user system where one would want sudo chances are
the person who's installing the OS isn't going to be the only one you
want to give sudo access to.  Therefore it'll have to be edited by
someone competent anyway.

    So we have a default which is, on the one case, only needed because of a
bad choice and in the other case gets the default wrong.  This is your
example?

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Steve Lamb