I've lost sudo access and I don't really understand why

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 19:02, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:


>  Rather, the decision was taken in order to reduce the
> number of questions that the installer had to ask.  People who weren't
> involved in the decision later put about the idea that it was a change
> we'd made to increase security, but that wasn't true.

Couldn't _both_ be true?

Also, Apple did it in Mac OS X. I'm not sure they were first, either,
but they were certainly the highest-profile example.

It also effectively stops people from logging in as root, don't forget
that. It's easy to do, it's almost always a bad idea, and any distro
with an active root account that permits it puts temptation in the
path of anyone coming from Windows, where it used to be normal to log
in as admin.

This is one of the reasons that I didn't recommend Puppy Linux, which
many people did. Puppy runs as root by default, because its creator
learned on Win9x and thinks it's normal. He sees *nix user security as
an unnecessary pain and irritation, so the distro doesn't use it --
and was horribly vulnerable as a result.

I thought it was dead, but I see that the creator quit after v5 and v6
and onwards are community distros. I don't know if they use the root
account the same way as before.

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