On 11/08/14 22:07, David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Sid Boyce wrote:
Before SuSE was born there was glibc5 vs glibc6. Others like KDE3 vs KDE4, pulseaudio, going away from using a root password in favour of "sudo su" and the user password *Yikes*!?!?! Is oS shipping a sudoers that allows that? *looks into the 13.1 VM* *ARGH* Albeit with "targetpw".
-dnh
That's the default behaviour in Ubuntu to this day. If you need to do anything that needs root privileges, it's "sudo <command>" upon which it asks for the user password. To set root's password "sudo su" - enter user password then "passwd root". During install it does not prompt you for a root password. The default password for the default user ubuntu is temppwd "sudo su", give password "temppwd" and you have root privileges. It's said to be done that way so as not to confuse new users who by many comments on this list when it was discussed found remembering 2 passwords presented a great difficulty to them. So unless the admin changes the password for ubuntu or explicitly sets up a root password there is that large gaping hole. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org