Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 27, 2007 08:35 AM
Just a minor detail, but I think you'll find that Ubuntu asks for the user's password, not root's. The popup is in effect a GUI wrapper around the sudo command, which by default wants the user's password.
Yes, a virus could flash the password box, but can it gain root priviledge to run? If Ubuntu is configured `sanely', then it will not allow arbitrary code to be run in this manner, since sudo has a list of which users are allowed to run which applications. Don't know offhand how Ubuntu configures sudo.
Incidently, if you want get a proper root login on Ubuntu, try `sudo passwd root', and then go from there.
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Re:Linux Anti-Virus
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 27, 2007 08:35 AMYes, a virus could flash the password box, but can it gain root priviledge to run? If Ubuntu is configured `sanely', then it will not allow arbitrary code to be run in this manner, since sudo has a list of which users are allowed to run which applications. Don't know offhand how Ubuntu configures sudo.
Incidently, if you want get a proper root login on Ubuntu, try `sudo passwd root', and then go from there.
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