On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:55, you wrote: > On Feb 13, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: > > If one was to give a laptop to a newbie, say, what would be some useful > > commands to allow them to use with sudo? > > Well, allow sudo for everything (after all, I guess it's their laptop), > with password prompts (the default) but don't tell them about the other > usages :-)
Hmm. That's one way I suppose. I will be giving them the root password (indeed it *is* their laptop), but by restricting what they can do with sudo then if their user account is compromised then only a subset of commands are available. Andy
