You have to be in the admin group to use sudo full stop. First user goes
in the admin group as they "disable" root by default.
For workstation purposes I rate ubuntu over fedora (I use fedora core on
a single server, because I had no choice, I prefer FreeBSD). My view on
fedora is really that it's in constant beta practically, it's stupidly
bloated (even more so, when compared to ArchLinux [my laptop
distribution]) and a not stable/reliable enough for fedora.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate fedora. I just wish it was less bloated
and better security. When that happens, I'd probably actually migrate
my servers to it and possibly my workstations too.
Cheers,
~ Tom
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.
