On 15/06/14 12:24, Linda Walsh wrote:
Dirk Gently wrote:
The purpose of sudo is to allow a non-privileged user to execute a limited number of commands as root, WITHOUT giving the root password to the user.
That is 1 application and sudo can be configured that way. It doesn't come preconfigured that way, as who would be able to make up the commands a home user is allowed to run on their own system as 'root' without them knowing the password?
It doesn't make sense for OSuse.
Both Ubuntu and openSuSE are set up wrong.
---- Ubuntu seems to be setup with no security other than 'user'.
Correct - which is the default when installed it. However, if one knows what to do, one can then create a ROOT with his/her own password to do "all sorts of unspeakable things to the system (ooooh!)" :-) . But how to do this is clouded in 'mystery and intrigue' and only made known by getting really pally with The High Priests :-) .
I can give out user logins on my system w/o giving out root. (The users I might give out a login to are housemates... not hackers, so they wouldn't be likely to try to leverage the user password to get root access -- most of them find logging on challenging enough).
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