No, it's not that risky because members of group admin can also run
sudo. In fact, the security is better than having a root account with a
set password, because having a root password means you need to give it
to some people. In the current case, every admin has his password.
** Changed in:
that will change when policekit start being used (which is not for
edgy), discussion about that on bug #59946, I'm marking it duplicate of
that one
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[network-admin] network-admin can be run without root-rights
https://launchpad.net/bugs/63766
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 59946 ***
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 59946
run action as root without prompting for a password
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[network-admin] network-admin can be run without root-rights
https://launchpad.net/bugs/63766
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Thanks for your bug. Your user is member of the admin group, no? Non-
admin users are not authorized to run it
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Status: Unconfirmed = Needs Info
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[network-admin] network-admin can be run without
Yes, only users who are inside the admin group may change the network
settings this way. I guess this is a nice feature for people who migrate
from windows, but it scares the heck of of me... ;)
BTW: The same thing affects users-admin an all other tools out of gnome-
system-tools
Isn't it risky
