Configuring administrator access with sudo
By now, we've already used sudo quite a few times in this book. At this point, you should already be aware of the fact that sudo allows you to execute commands as if you were logged in as root. However, we haven't had any formal discussion about it yet, nor have we discussed how to actually modify which of your user accounts are able to utilize sudo.
On all Linux systems, you should protect your root account with a strong password and limit it to be used by as few people as possible. On Ubuntu, the root account is locked anyway, so unless you unlocked it by setting a password, it cannot be used to log into the system. Using sudo is an alternative to using root, so you can give your administrators access to perform root tasks with sudo without actually giving them your root password or unlocking the root account. In fact, sudo allows you to be a bit more granular. Using root is basically all or nothing-if someone knows the root password and the root...
