On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 01:50 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 05 November 2006 01:15, Mike McMullin wrote:
Ubuntu's method of giving the first account sudo privileges won't work in this situation, as i) I don't want the extra account, and more importantly ii) I want to make sure the user (a teenager) doesn't load it down with unneeded programs.
Don't want the extra account? Like that's going to hurt having that around!
I didn't say it was going to hurt. I said I didn't want it.
Would You also want to get rid of the root account if you set it up the SuSE way?
I don't recall ever logging into the root account in Ubuntu.
Who is going to keep the machine up to date by running updates? You need sudo authority for that.
Its all submerged into the auto-update thingie in ubuntu just like it is the rug updater in SuSE, but in ubuntu you don't have to give them root passwords.
Actually this is one thing that I want to work just this way. Have certain root privileges available to the normal user.
Then, they just get to run that subset of commands that /etc/sudoers says they can do. Mostly these commands are submerged under the gui.
Even a teen ager can be trusted to click an icon to apply security patches.
AAMOF not this one, he's hosed his XP setup and then hosed mine, all by not bothering to to do those updates.
If you can't trust them to do that, then create their account SECOND rather than first.
You can delete the first one (after setting a root password) if it really bothers you to have a spare account around.
Possibly, it is an option.