Local users get to play root?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 19:27:52 UTC 2009


2009/11/18 Bob Arendt <rda at rincon.com>:
> I haven't tried .. but does this this also include the capability for
> my grade-school child to *remove* software using their account?
> Like gcc?  glibc?  gdm?  All fun activities ...

No, removing is a different "role" and requires a different
authentication. The default is to ask the root password for the
machine.

Richard.




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