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| Subject: | Re: SUDO vs root account question |
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| 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. -- <<JAV>>
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