Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcV2hhdA==?= a Linux root user can do - and 8 ways you should absolutely never use =?UTF-8?B?aXTigJ0=?= Date: 23 Jan 2026 22:09:07 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <10koqeb$1i9u5$2@dont-email.me> <10kpar0$1nlc1$1@dont-email.me> <10kq97r$31q7d$1@news1.tnib.de> <10kroo0$2hv00$3@dont-email.me> <10ku1df$3b523$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 59HgyvW7o47OwecNl4yb2QnFLtFfO68YGRJjbdTsxRBlDR+CsY Cancel-Lock: sha1:GiBsm6/U6TTDNavA/VbPB9PL00Q= sha256:q3JgsNX8S4DGkMqhdwePrZWfPQm9iCJVdEKg/gAGfpo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81573 On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:37:49 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: > openSUSE creates a root user with the same password as the first user, > by default. You can click somewhere and use a different password. Okay. My last OpenSUSE was 13.2 and I don't remember how I set it up 10 years ago. > sudo works with the user password, at least for the 1st user. I have not > tried a second user. > > [...] > > A second user can sudo to root with root's password. That could be a problem although for most people the Linux box is single user anyway. A more realistic scenario is the Makespace laptops the library converted to Linux Mint. There has to be at least one person to administer the machines. However the laptops are used by the kids for Arduino programming and other projects so there has to be another user that is not in the sudo group. I don't think each kid gets their own login although that may be a problem in the long run. The Arduino IDE saves the sketches in /home/user/ Arduino and added libraries in /home/user/.arduino15.