sudo by default?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:59:35PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> William Jon McCann (william.jon.mccann at gmail.com) said: 
> > So what is our view of setting up sudo by default for standalone
> > systems?  Probably has some relationship with the systems on which we
> > prevent root logins.
> > 
> > It is worth noting that many of us have to set up ourselves each time
> > we install Fedora.  Might be nice if something like it was done by
> > default.
> > 
> > Is sudo the right answer or should we be thinking about pkexec?  Thoughts?
> 
> I thought the idea was setting up desktop_admin_r, and that for the
> standalone systems, we were trying to avoid having to rely on anything
> that would need to be exposed via sudo.

Yes, I was under the impression that group role would play a part in
some next iteration of security policy.

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