On 1/5/06, Tommy Reynolds <megacoder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since folk appear receptive to automatically adding the root email address, > could we extend a similar functionality, offering to add the first user > account into /etc/sudoers? The su(8) approach is just so-o-o-o open to the > dark side. > I know other distributions do this, but I don't think it is a good idea. Adding the first user to /etc/sudoers means that any malware only needs to get that user's password, or get itself to run after you use sudo, and then it gets root access. I don't see what is wrong with using su. n0dalus. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
