[KLUG Members] Security setup ...

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> One last point.  I've been playing around with Ubuntu, and they seem to
> have their system configured the same way as OS-X, where all admin GUI's
> run sudo and the user has to enter their own password instead of the
> root password.  (which is frustrating if you don't know that and you
> can't get it to take root's password in the dialog box :)
> Is that the security model of the future for Linux?  Are other distro's
> planning on going that way?  Just wondering ...   :-)

I hope so, it seems more reasonable in a workstation context.  As long
as there is a nice interface to grant/revoke administrative actions
to/from a entity on a granular basis.

And of course the option to use ksu instead of sudo so I don't have to
enter ANY password.
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