Re: sudo command not necessary (was Re: help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive)
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Chris Bannister
<mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:52:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:48:52AM -0500, Doug wrote:
>>>
>>> I suspect it will work in any Linux, if you modify the sudoers file to add
>>
>> Right! *IF* you modify the sudoers file. It does not work out of the box
>> as it does in Ubuntu.
>
> In fact:
> root@fischer:~# apt-cache show sudo
> Package: sudo
> Priority: optional
> ...
>
> which means the sudo package isn't even installed by default.
Not quite; sudo is installed by default when you install the GNOME
desktop (but only root is allowed to run sudo by default).
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