Re: [SLUG] Lindows experience.

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<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

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