On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, jim tate wrote:
Mike wrote:
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, jim tate wrote:
I have done a install of Kubuntu just to see how it work, I'm a straight
Fedora user and no desire to move to Ubuntu,
I just want to see how it works as far as SU goes.
In ubuntu , can any user type in sudo -s and get root privileges ?
For Security reasons this distro scares me.
I teach Linux at locale libraries and wanted to get a feel for ubuntu
before I can say yea or nay.
And I don't want to go threw a bunch of hassles to track down a Ubuntu
forum just to ask one question about a distro
that I'm not going to permanently use.
Thanks
Jim
I believe sudo -s and sudo -i is limited to users in the admin group. Look
at the file /etc/sudoers on your Ubuntu box. Also if I recall correctly
users can be added and removed from groups using the gpasswd command.
But can any user perform those steps ?
If so this unsafe allowing users to install anything they want.
This is one of the main resones that Windows crashes so much, kids being able
to install anything.
As you might have guessed, only users in the admin group can perform those
steps.
