On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:19 -0400, Brad Banko wrote:
I hope you don't mind me chiming in... I am a user who has used
sudo and
been pleased with having the flexibility to give root commands, do system
wide searches without having to login as root...
Does having sudo privileges (not restricted, but equivalent to root) give
you the power to "take root"... change root's password? (e.g., ' sudo
passwd root ...' ) I know that I don't appreciate the security issues
fully of logging in as root (restricted to a terminal) versus using sudo in
a terminal window ( sudo authority has a time expiration on it and requires
the sudoers password to initiate ).
.
A basic configuration would allow a sudo caller to change the root
password.
And if sudo doesn't give a user the ability to "take
root", what does one do
if one forgets their root password?
Boot the system to single user mode or boot rescue media and change it
that way.
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