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Idea #23373: Root should give it powers to other users.

bug This entry was marked as not being an idea the 19 January 10. If this is a bug report, please use the Ubuntu bug tracker.
Written by TooSmart the 19 Jan 10 at 02:38. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea
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When people install Ubuntu they don't become root etc. by default which is very unintelligent(stupid):(.
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Solution #1: Give powers
Written by TooSmart the 19 Jan 10 at 02:38.
When we configure accounts we should be able to give all of roots special and forbidden abilities to users we want to assign to.

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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 19 Jan 10 at 03:42
Please elaborate with a use case or an example. What powers do you want non-admin users to have, and why?

eklem wrote on the 19 Jan 10 at 10:29
I agree with you Andrew, but maybe a little less sarcastic =)

TooSmart: We already have this in Linxu, but for security reasons, you don't want to "run around with a big gun that has a really short barrel" all the time. Root-priveleges are powerfull. Therefore you have to use the sudo-command that gives you root-priveleges only when you want to do someting potentially dangerous.

qense (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 19 Jan 10 at 19:48
It would be very dangerous to give regular users all or even a part of the root permissions. They already have a part of the permissions via sudo or via PolicyKit, which both require authentication.

Giving them more permissions would lead to unsafe situations like we can see in the case of Windows XP and which Microsoft is desperately trying to make less of a problem in Windows Vista and Windows 7; unfortunately they're hindered by a lot of applications that assume they run with administration rights.
Ubuntu should make sure it never gets in such a bad situation.

TooSmart wrote on the 20 Jan 10 at 00:57
We can't even shut down the computer with 'halt' in the terminal and we need to be root in order to do so.

coolpup69ca wrote on the 1 Feb 10 at 18:09
sudo is the best approach, rather than giving users free rein. I would, however, like to see root's password being used for administrative stuff rather than the user's password. It's done that way on all the other Linuxes I've used.


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