Problems of a desktop Linux distribution GUI sudo

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
>
> It can't be that bad, I thought, I can probably only sudo a known  
> program. Alas, in the latest version of Ubuntu the sudoers file says
>
> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
>

At least it still requires you to enter a password. This prevents a  
random person walking up to your computer and deleting or installing  
software, etc.

If you don't like it you are welcome to create an "adminstrator"  
account, change root so that you can log in to it, and comment out (or  
delete) that line.
What doing any of them breaks, I have no idea and accept no  
responsability for anything breaking.

>
> In Windows when you're asked to leverage a permission of a program,  
> it shows you the digital signature of the executable asking for  
> privileges (or at least that's how it looks like in the dialog),  
> which is not a very good solution IMHO, but it's at least better  
> than nothing.

That started as an add-on to Windows XP, Windows Defender which  
originally was Giant Anti-Spyware. Not surprisingly, although it  
really worked, was not a pain to have on your system, and was free (as  
in beer, not FOSS), very few people used it. So it was made an  
integral part of Windows Vista and was the number one complaint. There  
were many postings about how to turn it off. :-(

Geoff.


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