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

[Florian Diesch]

"Steve Lamb" <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:

> 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.

If you don't want to work as root all the time you really want some
simple way to run a command as root. Using sudo instead of su  makes
it a little bit easier as you don't have to remember two passwords.

IMHO that's a good choice for desktop boxes, even if there's only one
user.


>     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.

By default Ubuntu gives sudo access to everyone in the admin group. No
editing needed in your example.



   Florian
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