Leslie Satenstein wrote:
With Fedora, sudo asks for the root password, which is the correct way.
With UBUNTU, it asks for the user password, which means that you cannot
let others share your logon id and password.
Shame on Ubuntu.
That's not true. It depends very much on how you set up Sudo - and the
easiest way is to ask for your password - it's very difficult to get
sudo to prompt for the root password.
What you are confused about is all those windows prompting you for the
root password - they are not generated via sudo - they are part of
PolicyKit, which is the framework Fedora uses for authorising privileged
access.
You can adjust PolicyKit from "System -> Preferences -> System ->
Authorisations"
- If set to "Admin Authentication" the root password will be prompted for.
- If set to "Authentication" then the user's password will be prompted for.
Some authorisations are also still controlled through
consolehelper/userhelper - these can be adjusted using the files in
/etc/security/console.apps/ - If you add the line "UGROUP=wheel" then
anyone in the wheel group will be asked for their own password instead
of roots.
The dual-configuration places will eventually collapse when the Fedora
guys move everything to PolicyKit, but until then, you need to fiddle
with multiple places.
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