F22 System Wide Change: Set sshd(8) PermitRootLogin=no

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jan 17 00:57:41 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 15:39 +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> 
> There's a chance of a successful exploitation that would result in 
> obtaining my privileges. Sure, gaining access to my account is bad 
> enough, but if I run "su" or "sudo", they have root!

Along these lines, someone pointed out a rather nasty attack vector 
via sudo the other day:

http://blog.grdryn.me/blog/fedora/prank-alias-sudo-in-bash.html

so...you'd better remember to call it with \ every time...:)
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