sudo by default?

[Jesse Keating]

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.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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