On 10/24/2013 09:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Reading the list for a while, I won the impression that Debian by >> default now comes with sudo enabled. > > It is one of the two possible choices that can be made during the > installation. There isn't a default. > > The user either chooses to enter a root password and also a user > account and user password. Or chooses to only have a user account and > user password without a root password. In the latter case, if at > install time only a user account and user password is input, then the > debian-install will set up sudo. It won't set up sudo if a root > password was entered. So whether it is set up after an install > depends upon the installation. >
/snip/ > Bob > I know Debian is different, but the distro I use and the man page for sudo, I believe, expects there to be a root password, that sudo will expect when invoked. And there would also be a user password for each user. A user who is permitted to use sudo would be given the root password, and his name would be entered into the sudoers file. (Perhaps a different password can be assigned, I don't know.) The main purpose of sudo, as I understand it, is to prevent a user from opening up su and then leaving it open--sudo will close after a selected interval of non use. Some distros frown on the use of sudo, and do not make it easily available. I don't undrstand that. But I don't understand a distro where anyone who has access to the machine can use sudo. I guess I don't understand how a user whithout the root password, and only his own password could use sudo, which seems to be how Debian is set up. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.Greeley -- 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/5269d17c.6090...@optonline.net
