Hi Ralf On 24/10/13 22:42, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 20:43 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> su -c "apt-get -st deb-multimedia install audacity" > > Reading the list for a while, I was under the impression that Debian by > default now comes with sudo enabled. > > >
Could be, I don't have an opinion (on that) :) I don't do default[*1] installs. Certainly "expert" install mode gives a choice (choices are good) - regardless of whether people use sudo or not root *should* have a different password to any other user. But of course it's the system administrators choice if they wish to become a festering repository for linux malware and inflict their digital diseases on the rest of us... IMNSHO sudo is "generally" a good bad idea, far too many people use the same password for sudo as for the user - and far too many people can't see the problem with that. Worse, and *very* common with, um, "users" of a "popular" derivative of Debian is "%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" which requires no password for sudo(sigh). "su -c" isn't too difficult for many, and if the extra keystrokes are a problem:- $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bash rc then you can use "s" instead of "sudo" (or alias sudo='su -c"') if you don't have sudo installed. The price of convenience is often security. Kind regards [*1]attach bread to the Enter key, get a chicken to finish the install -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52690ccf.9030...@gmail.com
