sudo by default?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue May 4 20:59:35 UTC 2010


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.

As for me, I tend to just uncomment some of the more drastic lines in
pam.d/su.

Bill


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