From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 13:13: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (unknown [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D0C37B422 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 13:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f42KD2S06807; Thu, 3 May 2001 06:13:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 06:13:02 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Jonathan Fortin Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabling The Root Account Message-ID: <20010503061301.B6584@welearn.com.au> References: <20010502142336.I30799-100000@awww.jeah.net> <00ba01c0d340$6f1097e0$0200320a@node00> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00ba01c0d340$6f1097e0$0200320a@node00>; from jfortin@akalink.com on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:45:25PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:45:25PM -0400, Jonathan Fortin wrote: > 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. Well, you do have to understand what you're doing when you configure sudo and when you dish out privileges, even to yourself. You also have to change the way personal passwords are treated. Otherwise don't use sudo, or root for that matter. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message