Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > On Monday 18 May 2009 22:14:43 bn wrote: >>> If you use Ubuntu, you've got to accept their eccentric & questionable >>> attitude to passwords, esp that they don't have a separate root password. >>> I find that a piece of cheap popularisation contrary to UNIX principles. > > Huh? > > The package you are talking about is sudo. Might I add that sudo follows the > grand time honoured tradition of the principle of least priviledge whereas su > does not?
As far as I know it is not enough to just use sudo. When a GUI program requires admin privileges, it will usually ask the root password. On Ubuntu, it will instead "sudo" its privileges. That's the thing, I think Ubuntu patches its software to behave properly with its own sudo thing. But it's not a big deal, it's just a feature which made sense to me but I can live very happily also with the good old Unix way. m.
