<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Simplistic in the sense that by default, your administrative user has ALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE RIGHTS. In Ubuntu by default there the administrative roles (create users, populate home directories, manage network, change peripherals, change users passwords, and so many more) are simplistically merged into ONE SINGLE ADMINISTRATIVE user. That is what I mean by simplistic. Of course, SUDO can be made to enfore more fine grained control. But Ubuntu *BY*DEFAULT* isn't configured that way. Gilles. Peter Garrett wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20071105041316.7b901fef.peter.garrett@optusnet.com.au" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:00:53 +0100 Gilles Gravier <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Gilles@Gravier.org"><Gilles@Gravier.org></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Consider this some form of very simplistic role based access control. Your normal user has the administrator role when it enters the correct password. Unfortunately not much fine grain control, but still... better than full access to root. :) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This is not so - on the contrary, the original point of sudo was to give fine-grained control over which users and/or groups were allowed to run particular applications, or perform defined administrative tasks. man sudoers has more information. apropos sudo Points to even more :) There is nothing at all simplistic about it, as you will discover if you read further on the subject. Peter </pre> </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta content="text/html; " http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Signature Home Chastity</title> <meta content="Gilles Gravier" name="author"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <table style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); width: 500px; height: 73px;" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); white-space: nowrap;"> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt>Gilles Gravier = <a href="mailto:Gilles@Gravier.org">Gilles@Gravier.org</a> = <a href="http://www.gravier.org/">http://www.gravier.org/</a></tt> </div> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt>ICQ : <a href="http://www.icq.com/whitepages/about_me.php?Uin=77488526">77488526</a></tt> <tt> || </tt><tt>MSN Messenger : <a href="http://members.msn.com/Gilles@Gravier.org">Gilles@Gravier.org</a></tt><tt> </tt>Skype<tt> : <a href="callto://ggravier">ggravier</a></tt><tt> || </tt><tt>Y! : <a href="http://profiles.yahoo.com/ggravier">ggravier</a></tt><tt style="font-weight: bold;"> || </tt><tt>AOL : <a href="aim:goim?screenname=gillesgravier">gillesgravier</a> </tt><tt>PGP Key ID : <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x8DE6D026&op=index">0x8DE6D026</a></tt> </div> <div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><tt><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" href="http://www.gmap-track.com/user.php?user=ggravier">My Last Known Position / Ma Derniere Position Connue</a> "Chastity is its own punishment." (Solomon Short) [David Gerrold] </tt>"De toutes les aberrations sexuelles, la chasteté est la plus aberrante." [Anatole France] </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </body> </html>