Feedback please

[Mike]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, jim tate wrote:

> I have done a install of Kubuntu just to see how it work, I'm a straight 
> Fedora user and no desire to move to Ubuntu,
> I just want to see how it works as far as SU goes.
> In ubuntu , can any user type in sudo -s and get root privileges ?
> For Security reasons this distro scares me.
> I teach Linux at locale libraries and wanted to get a feel for ubuntu before 
> I can say yea or nay.
> And I don't want to go threw a bunch of hassles to track down a Ubuntu forum 
> just to ask one question about a distro
> that I'm not going to permanently use.
>
> Thanks
> Jim

I believe sudo -s and sudo -i is limited to users in the admin group. 
Look at the file /etc/sudoers on your Ubuntu box.  Also if I recall 
correctly users can be added and removed from groups using the gpasswd 
command.