<quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan"> > > Absolutely not. Have a look at /etc/sudoers to see the configuration. In > > warty, it gave full sudo access to the initial user created. In hoary, > > it gives full sudo access to members of the admin group (which the > > initial user is a member of). > > Is it a good idea to give *full* sudo access to the initial user by > default? This sounds like a security problem to me.
If you didn't give it to someone, no one could administer the computer (or bring up network connections, or upgrade the software, etc). :-) - Jeff -- EuroOSCON: October 17th-20th http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/ http://www.illusionary.com/GNOMEvKDE.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
