Re: Help! Grub is broken

[Thorny <thorntreehome@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:59:33 -0400, Celejar posted:

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> But this equivalence between insecure systems and those likely to fall
> victim to an accidental "rm -rf /" breaks down for the above case, since
> accidents become much less likely, but a virus can still do whatever it
> wants by prefacing its actions with 'sudo'.
> 

Your point is well put, I agree with you. But this thread started
out about the whether or not Linux virus are currently "in the wild".

I am somewhat familiar with one of those systems that uses that hateful
sudo configuration in the hands of newbies in order to sacrifice security
for ease of use and thus is very much like recommending running as root.
Actually, the distro that I am thinking of recommends using the sudoer
(first user added at install) as an admin account and adding a user
without rights to use for normal operation but that info is buried in
documentation that most people don't read or heed. People even ask how
to add all rights to all new users added, making it somewhat like a lot
of Windows installations. I've long worried that the face of the future
may not be a smile. 

Thanks for the discussion.