[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[Martin Maney]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:13:33PM -0700, sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com wrote:
> I know how to do this when I have a root and a bunch of 
> user accounts, its already set up that way. Can you point 
> me to a tutorial or howto for systems like Ubuntu?

I believe I have come across a brief description of this, perhaps on
the Ubuntu wiki.  It's really pretty straightforward, though, so it may
have been just a sentence or two in passing.

> Is there an easy way, or is it just a matter of editing 
> the sudoer's list and creating a user with the usual 
> Ubuntu sudo authority (like an admin user) and then a 
> desktop user with limited authority? Its just my 

Probably the least-effort way would be to create your admin account
when installing the system -it will get setup with the sudo permissions
to do anything.  Then just create whatever normal users you wish (your
choice of using the normal CLI tools or the GUI tools); they will be
created without any sudoer entries, which is just what you wanted.  (at
least that's how it worked when I did this on a shared-access machine a
while ago; it's possible the defaults have changed for the GUI tool in
the meantime, though I'd hope not)

Or if you prefer not to have the admin account not named root, then you
can do the install using the user's name, add a password for root to
allow direct login and [after dircet login is working!] remove the user
account from sudoers.  It's all just a normal Linux system under the
hood, of course: only their initial setup is different than what you're
used to.

Oh, and maybe there's a third way - someone said that "expert" mode
installs [may?] setup root for direct login, so maybe that can also
skip creating the user-with-admin-rights account as well.  I've had
very little use for expert mode, so I'm not sure.

> I know how to set things for most distros this way, 
> because most distros have root and the regular users are 
> already set up with limited authority. How do I do it for 
> Ubuntu? Don't just cry B.S., I think its a legitimate 
> question.

Oh, it is.  You confused me by stating it as a fact, not a question. 
Perhaps you were practicing Aahz's method?  ;-)

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