[Trisquel-users] Re : New user - root password problems

[lcerf]

Your user "george" has administrative privileges as long as he preceded his  
commands with 'sudo'. Whenever he does that his password is asked unless he  
executed another command with 'sudo' little time ago. If 'sudo' does not  
precede a command requiring administrative privileges (the last command you  
show us) then the command is aborted. You do *not* "run as Administrator all  
the time". This is what *you* observed. There is *no* problem. Also, there is  
no "admin" group on your system (the 'adduser' command is pretty clear about  
that). This is normal.

Of course, if an attacker discovers george's password, then she got  
administrative privileges too. But the same holds if this attacker discovers  
root's password in a system where root is the one only user who performs  
administrative tasks. There is no reason it would be harder to discover  
george's password rather than root's. Quite the opposite in fact: because he  
has to remember two (rather than one) passwords, there is a good chance that  
george chose weaker passwords!