root password setting unoffered at install

[Gilles Gravier]

Hehe... We agree. :)

Obviously, the "sudo" concept isn't clear for everybody, though, given 
the initial question.... education, explanations, discussions are always 
good.

Have a nice "whatever it is in your timezone" - evening for me.

Gilles.

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:44:57 +0100
> Gilles Gravier <Gilles at Gravier.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> This is more simplistic than having several users (roles) each with a 
>> limited and well defined set of permissions... as would be for example 
>> implemented with RBAC.
>>     
>
> [snipped other comments, with which I broadly agree ]
>
> OK - we don't really disagree, then. Either method ( the "root only" method
> mostly used in other distributions,  or Ubuntu's "only the first user is
> given root powers via sudo") is a broad brush approach.
>
> This is of course configurable, which is the way I was looking at it :)
> Nothing stops us from creating users and groups as we see fit, and
> tailoring sudo accordingly.
>
> I thought long threads about sudo vs. root were a thing of the past on the
> Ubuntu list, but evidently I was wrong!
>
> *sigh*
>
> ;-)
>
> Peter
>
>   

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