On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:01 PM, JMJ <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/16/2010 02:23 PM, Greg Jones wrote: > >> They set it up that way for "security reasons", or so they say. I >> assume since the distro is more aimed at us who are tired of messing >> with junk, and the unwashed masses, they decided to lock it down a >> bit. So root has no login or password. Everything is sudo and not all >> users can sudo. > > Hmmm... perhaps part of the reason that I don't see the point in how Ubuntu > has implemented root/su/sudo/etc. is that I assume that sudo provides the > same functionality as su. I'll be researching that now. :-) > > JMJ > AFAIK, there are 2 advantages to using sudo for your users, but neither applies if it's a single user machine. 1. Users don't know root password, but can still do some admin tasks. 2. sudo can be configured to allow specific users access to only certain commands. For instance, BackupPC will use a backuppc user on each client machine and that user gets sudo access to rsync, but nothing else. (Granted, once you have sudo rsync, you probably can get anything else you want..)
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