On 9/12/06, Stephen Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Assuming a reasonable configuration of sudo, a password is needed to
activate sudo privileges. Not sure how the worm etc. is going to do
that.
carl
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