begin quoting Stephen Cope as of Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:16:02AM +1200: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >Systems like ubuntu setup an admin group with an entry in the > >standard-distribution sudoers file, and then on installation, ask for > >and create a user account (which is made a member of the admin group). I > >don't remember whether or not they come right out and say that that > >first user is an admin during the install. > > Thus all future worms and viruses that require root privileges simply > need to add "sudo" before their command to execute themselves.
We'll need a susudo for those NOPASSWD users. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
