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Re: SUDO vs root account question

Subject: Re: SUDO vs root account question
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:27:21 -0400
Hi all,
I have two quick questions related to the 'sudo' command;
putting a certain user Mr.X with ALL=(ALL)ALL permissions in the
sudoers file, gives him COMPLETE root previleges? In other words, if 
I want that some people, for security reasons, stop using the root 
account/password for accessing the servers, by crating a sudo user 
with ALL previledges will decrease this risk? If this sudo account 
 is compromised, will the cracker have COMPLETE root previleges?


Think of SUDO and "DO" this as "SU."  If I hack a user account with full sudo
access, I can make myself root.

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