On 9/28/05, Steve Kratz <<a href="mailto:stevek@cipafilter.com">stevek@cipafilter.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > I am a bit bothered by sudo anyway. I have 5 kids. I > encourage them all to use Linux, but I don't worry about them > screwing with the system. They all know my user password. > With Ubuntu they could now do anything they want in the GUI > with that password. This will force me to change my password > and set them up a seperate account. > > No biggie, but I don't like the idea that anyone with my user > passward has complete control of my system. It's not like > I'm a system admin. > I'm just a dad on a home pc, so I don't protect my user > password from my family and I don't bother with 7 seperate accounts. </blockquote></div> Multiple kids, multiple users... simplest solution, really. They can each have their own data and everything they want as their own users. You are the administrator, and have sudo rights. Why negate that whole security model and just have one user? And if you really insist in negating Ubuntu's default security, than you can of course "unlock" root and have it your way :-).