On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 08:02:42PM EDT, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote:
> I'm not looking to criticize your choice, but the setting on Ubuntu to > lock root and use sudo is configurable (and you can, in fact, > duplicate it on Debian if you want). If you want to use a root > password on Ubuntu, simply set one and then delete the configuration > from /etc/sudoers that allows your username to use sudo. > $ sudo passwd root > $ su - root > # visudo > > And so on. I'm sure you can find the line in there, it will be of the > format: > > username ALL=(ALL) ALL > > Then save the file and sudo is no longer possible for your user account. > > To duplicate the behavior on Debian, you do something similar: > > $ su - root > # visudo > # passwd -l root > Adding the above line to sudoers (which opens automatically when you > invoke visudo). This will give your account sudo access and lock the > root account (as Ubuntu does). > There's nothing special about how Ubuntu does it. In fact, when you > install Etch you can have the Ubuntu behavior at installation time > (when it prompts for a root password, select Cancel, then in the > installer menu, select the option for configuring user accounts and > select "No" when it asks if you want to allow root to have a > password). It's all pretty self-explanatory in the installer. This > option was removed in Lenny's installer. > Anyway, again, not criticizing your desire to have a root password, > I'm simply pointing out that there's nothing special about what Ubuntu > is doing and if you want to have a root password on Ubuntu and use > Ubuntu, you can. Nice mini-howto - did that.. couldn't get used to that sudo thing myself on ubuntu :-) Changed "Subject:" .. may make it easier to google for. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
