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Security (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago by smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 83 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Here's the problem. So many legitimate things need elevation, and often multiple times in a single install. Guess what most Windows users do, when they see an elevation prompt. What do you reckon?

[–] DrGunjah@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Honestly I don't think it's that bad. I have to use sudo just as often on linux as I have to accept the elevation box on win. Win11 has some serious issues but UAC is harmless.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life -5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Sudo is very different. You need to explicity enter your password. It may be cached for a short time and I'd argue that's actually better.

If I'm installing something, it asks for my password once but can then raise to root multiple times that's fine.

If I'm installing something and it asks for elevation three times, for example it needs to Install multiple drivers. It generates an automatic click when installing for many unexperienced users. It's dangerous imo.

It can't really be compared to Sudo.

[–] DrGunjah@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you think a person that would turn off UAC wouldn't just put NOPASSWD in the sudoers? I doubt that. And even if they had to enter their pwd... Wouldn't that just be annoying for the casual user instead of increasing security? I doubt they would be like "Oh I have to enter my pwd now, that really makes me think twice about whatever I was going to do with sudo."

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Can confirm, have borked my sysyem this way

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