Feedback please

[Mike]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, jim tate wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> But can any user perform those steps ?
> If so this unsafe allowing users to install anything they want.
> This is one of the main resones that Windows crashes so much, kids being able 
> to install anything.
>

As you might have guessed, only users in the admin group can perform those 
steps.