I'm buying a lot of what you say, but I still find this password stuff pretty confusing. As I tell my wife when she calls me stupid, "OK, I'm stupid. So how do you treat a stupid person. You make it as clear and simple as possible."
For example, in Livecd ubuntu 6.06 LTS it was so easy to put in sudo pppoeconf and slide right online. It's maybe a little easier than winxp. So I installed and now when it asks me for a password terminal will accept no entries at all. You can't make a mark at the cursor. Livecd never asked for a password. Now that I'm installed it not only asks for one but it won't accept anything.
I've spent hours looking for an answer in helps. I'm advised not to set root password, but I'm ready to do that just to get online.
Am I doing something wrong? I'm ready to hear that. Is there something wrong with this distro? Please tell me what to do.
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Originally Posted by reddazz
I know how sudo works and thats why I made the comments above. If I felt that my knowledge about sudo was limited, I would not have bothered to post in this thread since I would be posting garbage.
I will explain myself a bit more and maybe you will get my points. In most Unix based OSes sudo is used to give a user limited root privileges whereas in Ubuntu a user (in the admin group) is given unlimited root privileges (not temporary like you say in your post), so they can basically do what they want as long as they put "sudo" in front of the commands they wish to run and enter their password. This is not different from running as root (minus sudo and the users password) because when you run as root you have the power to do whatever you wish to the whole of the system.
As for passwords, you seem to miss the point that passwords can be obtained without cracking (and thats why I did not specifically mention cracking of a system or other types of attacks). There are many people out there who use obvious passwords, write them down or are plain careless with them.
In my post I did not say running as root is more secure than sudo. I said you can use both methods to make your system a lot more secure.
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