From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 12:45:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.akalink.com (akalink.com [64.23.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6272037B449 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 12:45:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfortin@akalink.com) Received: (qmail 28708 invoked from network); 2 May 2001 19:43:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO node00) (64.23.81.14) by akalink.com with SMTP; 2 May 2001 19:43:30 -0000 Message-ID: <00ba01c0d340$6f1097e0$0200320a@node00> Reply-To: "Jonathan Fortin" From: "Jonathan Fortin" To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: References: <20010502142336.I30799-100000@awww.jeah.net> Subject: Re: Disabling The Root Account Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:45:25 -0400 Organization: Akalink Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No. What if someone gets a hold of your password, he wouldnt even need root password to have root access. he would just call /bin/sh via sudo and bam! sudo has it's pros and what you would be doing is a con. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: "John Congdon" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Disabling The Root Account > And how would you go about doing system administration tasks if you did > this? > -- Jonathan M. Slivko > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Jonathan M. Slivko | e-mail: jslivko@jeah.net > Sys. Admin, DataSyrgeINET | http://www.datasyrge.net > Tech. Support, SimpHost | http://www.simphost.com > IRC Oper, AsylumNet IRC | http://www.asylum-net.org > ---------------------------------------------------------- > FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve! > http://www.freebsd.org > > On Wed, 2 May 2001, John Congdon wrote: > > > I am considering changing root's shell to /bin/false or the like. > > And doing everything via sudo. > > > > Does anyone have any insight into this? Is it not advisable to do this? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message