Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]
On 10/24/2013 09:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> Reading the list for a while, I won the impression that Debian by
>> default now comes with sudo enabled.
>
> It is one of the two possible choices that can be made during the
> installation. There isn't a default.
>
> The user either chooses to enter a root password and also a user
> account and user password. Or chooses to only have a user account and
> user password without a root password. In the latter case, if at
> install time only a user account and user password is input, then the
> debian-install will set up sudo. It won't set up sudo if a root
> password was entered. So whether it is set up after an install
> depends upon the installation.
>
/snip/
> Bob
>
I know Debian is different, but the distro I use and the man page
for sudo, I believe, expects there to be a root password, that sudo
will expect when invoked. And there would also be a user password
for each user. A user who is permitted to use sudo would be given the
root password, and his name would be entered into the sudoers file.
(Perhaps a different password can be assigned, I don't know.)
The main purpose of sudo, as I understand it, is to prevent a user
from opening up su and then leaving it open--sudo will close after
a selected interval of non use.
Some distros frown on the use of sudo, and do not make it easily
available. I don't undrstand that. But I don't understand a distro
where anyone who has access to the machine can use sudo. I guess
I don't understand how a user whithout the root password, and only
his own password could use sudo, which seems to be how Debian is set
up.
--doug
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