user created at install added in sudoers ?

Chris Brown snecklifter at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 20:05:27 UTC 2007


On 18/06/07, David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net> wrote:
>
> fre, 15 06 2007 kl. 23:24 +0200, skrev Axel:
> > What do you think about adding the user created at install to the
> > sudoers list ?
> >
> > For newbies like me, understanding the sudoers file isn't so easy, but
> > nevertheless they may need the sudo command. In my case, I'd rather my
> > account would have been added automatically to the sudoers list :)
>
> Why do you need sudo, I mean what does it add that a correctly seperated
> privilaged user doesn't?
>

For me, the ability to automatically lose root priv's after a specified
period of time when I forget to drop out of root and have walked away from
my machine. :) I imagine/hope there are better reasons but for me it is
this.

Regards
Chris

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