20 Dec
2015
20 Dec
'15
3:49 p.m.
On Sunday 20 December 2015 15:12:17 Gene Heskett wrote:
IMO a separate package should not be needed. To that
end, if the package
asks for a pw, and gets the 1st users pw as a response, it should be
happy and run. There is little or no difference between root and 1st
user as 1st user is generally the one who originally setup the system
and should know it well.
That is what Ubuntu users think, Gene. But Ubuntu is available, as is TDE for
Ubuntu..
I was not aware, until this discussion, that debian
did setup a root
passwd, I had assumed that the buntu's inherited the sudo requirement
from debian.
No, it created it and the infection is spreading into Debian, on the whole
from Ubuntu users who switch. (Like you.)
I've one other machine that is running a 14.04
lubuntu
LTS, my lappy, and you have my curiosity piqued now, so its booting.
That takes a while as it seems to be convinced it must do an fsck
everytime it boots, on a 100 gig drive. And that transition to sudo for
everything is complete, there is not a passwd hash in the /etc/shadow
file for root.
It probably needs an update session so we'll see what synaptic wants to
install. 4 new packages, 52 to be upgraded. It was last done a couple
weeks ago, so the packagers have been busy. Updates I see include bind9
and grub plus a grocery list of other stuff. A new kernel too IIRC.
So I am learning a bit, and now don't feel so crippled at having to use a
root pw for some stuff. It was actually expected if it was pure debian.
Quite!! And some of us really want it. ;-)
Lisi