Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]
On 25/10/13 00:00, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Scott Ferguson
> <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't do default[*1] installs. Certainly "expert" install mode gives a
>> choice (choices are good) - regardless of whether people use sudo or not
>> root *should* have a different password to any other user.
>>
>> But of course it's the system administrators choice if they wish to
>> become a festering repository for linux malware and inflict their
>> digital diseases on the rest of us...
>>
>> IMNSHO sudo is "generally" a good bad idea, far too many people use the
>> same password for sudo as for the user - and far too many people can't
>> see the problem with that. Worse, and *very* common with, um, "users" of
>> a "popular" derivative of Debian is "%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" which
>> requires no password for sudo(sigh).
>
> 1) In a default setup where sudo's installed and enabled, root doesn't
> have a password.
And what could be wrong with that?
>
> 2) The whole point of disabling root and using sudo is to become root
> using one's own password.
Interesting.
>
> 3) There may be users or this or that distribution who add "NOPASSWD:"
> to their sudoers files but that's up to the users.
Surely. Although I do wonder how sudo to root without a password can be
effected *without* "%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL"
And no, I don't want to debate the merits of sudo. Choice is good.
Kind regards
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