root password

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Tue Feb 7 22:08:03 UTC 2012


On 02/07/2012 01:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/07/2012 02:01 AM, Tim wrote:
>>   There's no need to su or sudo, nor edit any files
>> where passwords are stored.
> 
> The point is that the sudo trick will work (assuming that you have it
> set up) without booting into recovery mode.

I keep meaning to edit the sudo config files to block things like

  sudo su -
  sudo bash

but I get lazy. Someday, this will bite me in the ***.

-- 
-- Steve


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