A better flabour?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:59:52 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 03 September 2018  at 16:46, Colin Law wrote:
> Re: A better flabour? (at least in part)
> 
> >On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 16:29, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 03 September 2018  at 14:05, Colin Law wrote:
> >> Re: A better flabour? (at least in part)
> >>
> >> >On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 13:56, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
> >> ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi All
> >> >>
> >> >> Truly are there some people who should not use Ubuntu?
> >> >>
> >> >> I have a friend who seems able to kill or at least make unusable ever effort I
> >> >> make to give him a Ubuntu system
> >> >
> >> >What is he doing that destroys them?
> >>
> >> I don't know, wish I did, the latest "Could" be something to do with a "Known"
> >> display bug, that has so far not been addressed?
> 
> >I have never heard of a display bug that could destroy the system. In
> >fact I think it is almost impossible to destroy an Ubuntu system (from
> >inside) if you have not got sudo privileges.
> 
> He needs sudo to update, the only non GUI thing he does 

Is his sudo *limited* to apt-get or can he run *anything* with sudo.

If he has unlimited sudo access, all it would take is:

sudo rm -rf /*

To pretty much trash the system.

Maybe next time you should limit his sudo access.  "man sudoers"

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