Questions about Ubuntu

[John Feole]

Sudo is available for Solaris on the Solaris Software Companion CD that 
ships with
Solaris, and also is freely available from:

http://www.sun.com/solaris/freeware

But RBAC is very tightly woven into Solaris..

JFeole
--

Nigel Stewart wrote:
>>>   Well, I suppose it means anyone with admin rights would at least be
>>> able to have different desktops. *shrug*
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Essentially, Ubuntu uses sudo. So, when a desktop user with admin rights 
>> wants to do something that requires root access, the user's password is 
>> requested, not the root password.
>>
>> There are a lot of reasons you do not want to run as root for normal 
>> operations.
>>     
>
> 	I installed OpenSolaris the other day and fully expected to have
> 	sudo.  It wasn't there.  My Linux-based reaction was - negative. :-)
>
> - Nigel
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