Updating by user not Root

[scarecrow]

Yup, this is a mighty good point.

My puter has three different user accounts (one for me, one for the kids and one for wife), but I'm the only one who's member of the "wheel" group, as well as the only one allowed running commands via sudo without providing a password.

[ianw1974]

I wasn't arguing the merits of using sudo. I'm referring to the ridiculous situation where by default in Mandriva any user can apply updates. I'm glad you added: 'Providing of course, that sudo is configured properly in the first place.' As it is in *buntu as long as I know at least one users password I could wreak havoc using sudo anyway.

 

Exactly :) because one user has effectively full root access anyway. The first thing I do though is set a root password because I hate sudo, and I hope Mandriva doesn't adopt it either. I'm going to reinstall and probably put Debian on my laptop as I'm generally annoyed by some idiosyncracies that Ubuntu has. Well, unless I find something else worth having instead.