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People's reaction to this is just stupid.People's reaction to this is just stupid.Posted Nov 19, 2009 20:49 UTC (Thu) by sjm (guest, #62085)In reply to: People's reaction to this is just stupid. by drag Parent article: Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages
"And anyways in systems like Ubuntu (and Fedora, I believe) the default is to let people have unfettered access to root account if they just supply them the user's password."
I think in Ubuntu this is true only of the first user created (automatically added to sudo file), but not true for other users.
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People's reaction to this is just stupid. Posted Nov 20, 2009 0:39 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Yeah. I now think that automatically giving all local users the ability to
install signed packages is probably a bad idea.
It should only be on automatically for the first user created during
People's reaction to this is just stupid. Posted Nov 20, 2009 17:51 UTC (Fri) by ariveira (guest, #57833) [Link]
First user is added to admin group; that admin group is the
one that has access granted by sudoers.
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