tab completion less useful now, due to sbin in path

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Oct 9 11:50:25 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:12:20AM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> By putting the first user into /etc/sudoers? That's completely and utterly 

No.

> broken. Just because Ubuntu does something doesn't mean it makes sense. ;-) 
> sudo either needs to be fixed to prompt for the root password instead of 
> denying access altogether if the user is not in sudoers or replaced by 
> something which does (and can still be invoked with "sudo" because that's the 
> command people know).

That's doable as a config option, and a good suggestion.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences




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