Not Remembering Root Password

Petrus de Calguarium kwhiskerz at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 06:33:59 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Giving out blanket sudo access to a user with no password prompt (not 
even
> user password) means that user is effectively root. At that point I really
> wonder what's the point of having a separate user account (other than
> working around broken apps/libs which refuse running as root)... I'd
> suggest not setting up your sudoers that way.

That has occurred to me, but it's my computer and I'm the only user, so 
password or not, I am BOTH me and root, anyway.

Do you really think it matters? What could happen, aside from making me 
think a few nanoseconds longer before executing a command?





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