Doug writes: > 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.
The main purpose of sudo is to make it possible to give some users restricted access to some commands that would normally require root privileges without giving them the root password and therefor full root privileges. On Debian the the first (and only the first) user created during installation is given full root privileges via sudo. You can grant pretty much any subset of root privileges to any user by editing the config file. You can also remove the privileges granted to the first user, of course. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- 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/8761smhyy7....@thumper.dhh.gt.org
