On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:52, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> All you need to do is run 'visudo' if you want to take your sudo
> privileges away.
Thanks -- visudo is not so obvious, but obviously, it is the first thing I am
going to run when I next boot the machine.
>
> The reason for removing root was likely not ease of use, but to prevent
> folks from running that way all the time. Like I said under separate
> cover, there really is no good reason as you can run any command as root
> by placing 'sudo' before the command.
>
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >On Wednesday 29 March 2006 20:45, Alan Brown wrote:
> >>On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >>>Unfortunately, as far as I am concerned kubuntu is a total disaster. I
> >>>downloaded their latest version 5.10 (if I remember right), burned a CD,
> >>>did the installation, and ended up with a running system with no root
> >>>password -- that is a totally useless system for doing any kind of
> >>> system administration or maintenance.
> >>
> >>sudo bash
> >>
> >>Ugly, but it works.
> >
> >Yes, really ugly, but it does work. Thanks. Now at least I have been able
> > to give my root account a password. Unfortunately, also, what I though
> > was my personal account, apparently has a lot more power than any sane
> > user should want.
> >
> >It is a bit of a pity that they assume the users to be so stupid that they
> >cannot understand what a "root" account is. I can admit that the word
> > "root" is probably unfamiliar. However, if they don't like "root" or
> > couldn't explain it, they could have created an "Administrator" account,
> > with uid=0 guid=0 and that would be much more simple and transparent than
> > sprinkling my userid in a whole pile of groups. They then could have
> > created my account as a standard user, which would have been much more
> > consistent with what most other systems including Windows do, and
> > probably a lot more secure too.
> >
> >Oh well, at least I now have a Debian-like system with recent software.
> >Thanks again.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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