Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE?

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE?
Date	2017-03-06 19:50 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 06:31:46PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> Debian appears to use the group 'sudo' as an administrative group,
> where some other distributions use 'wheel'.
> 
> I would not have thought that users would be added to it by default,
> there are no members on my sid/xfce4 workstation. Indeed, up to Jessie,
> sudo was not installed at all by default, and may still not be.

If you use the regular Debian installer, the user account that you
create during installation gets added to a lot of these special groups
(sudo, cdrom, floppy, audio, video, ...?).  Users that you create
post-installtion using adduser or useradd do not.

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Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-27 10:30 +0100
  Re: Security hole in LXDE? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-02-27 11:00 +0100
    Re: Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-27 11:20 +0100
      Re: Security hole in LXDE? GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-27 16:40 +0100
      Re: Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-03-02 11:50 +0100
        Re: Security hole in LXDE? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-02 12:40 +0100
          Re: Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-03-02 13:20 +0100
            Re: Security hole in LXDE? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-02 14:20 +0100
              Re: Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-03-02 14:40 +0100
                Re: Security hole in LXDE? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-02 21:20 +0100
              Re: Security hole in LXDE? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-02 15:10 +0100
                Re: Security hole in LXDE? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-02 21:40 +0100
      [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-03-06 18:30 +0100
        Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-06 19:40 +0100
          Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-03-06 19:50 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-06 20:00 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-06 20:40 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-06 21:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-03-06 21:50 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-06 22:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-07 09:10 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-06 22:00 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-07 09:10 +0100
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 13:10 +0100
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Security hole in LXDE? GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-06 20:50 +0100
  Re: Security hole in LXDE? Davor Balder <davor@cropakglobal.com> - 2017-02-27 11:10 +0100
    Re: Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-27 11:30 +0100
      Re: Security hole in LXDE? GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-27 12:20 +0100
        Re: Security hole in LXDE? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-27 23:00 +0100
          Re: Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-28 11:10 +0100
            Re: Security hole in LXDE? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-28 18:50 +0100
          Re: Security hole in LXDE? GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-28 13:40 +0100
            Re: Security hole in LXDE? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-28 18:50 +0100
              Re: Security hole in LXDE? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-01 01:00 +0100
    Re: Security hole in LXDE? cbannister@slingshot.co.nz - 2017-03-25 07:20 +0100
  Re: Security hole in LXDE? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-27 12:10 +0100
    Re: Security hole in LXDE? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-27 12:30 +0100
      Re: Security hole in LXDE? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-27 12:50 +0100
      Re: Security hole in LXDE? Pontus Goffe <goffe.pontus@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 15:50 +0100

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