sudo by default?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 09:09:38AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 04.05.2010, 23:36 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> > BTW: another reason to enable sudo by default is to unify things a
> > little across distributions: to my knowledge Ubuntu (and related
> > distros) set up sudo like that. 
> 
> They only setup sudo like that fr the first user that is created.
> 
> > It would be nice if folks coming from
> > their would have an easy path to administrating Fedora systems.
> 
> Speaking of administration: I'd like to remind everybody that there are
> still people using Fedora for servers and server admins still want to
> have a proper root account because usually there are no users on
> servers. If we go the Ubuntu way, we'll loose that (cause Ubuntu comes
> without root password and disabled root login).

If I'm not mistaken, we're discussing the Desktop Live image here.
I'd expect we can do better with server installation too, but that's
probably a separate conversation.

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