On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:56, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan"> > > Also, are there any security implications of this? Doesn't it mean that > > in a default setup, any local user can gain root access? Please correct > > me if I'm wrong. > > Absolutely not. Have a look at /etc/sudoers to see the configuration. In > warty, it gave full sudo access to the initial user created. In hoary, it > gives full sudo access to members of the admin group (which the initial > user is a member of).
Is it a good idea to give *full* sudo access to the initial user by default? This sounds like a security problem to me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "You have no idea the evil we do on a regular basis. ... The worst type of criminals don't carry a gun, they take your money legally." -- Anonymous MCI Worldcom employee, June 2002 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
