Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:56:26 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sudo & su Message-ID: <2F1BC4E1DAFE0EE0733135BA@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <e572718c05030313394a3bb5f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <e572718c05030313394a3bb5f0@mail.gmail.com>
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--On Thursday, March 03, 2005 09:39:01 PM +0000 Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > I have to questions: > 1) I can I tell sudo to ask for a password everytime it's invoked? Sure. Use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers and set: root ALL = (ALL) ALL wheel ALL = (ALL) ALL If NOPASSWD is in there, take it out. man (5) sudoers > 2) how can it be that, after updating root and toor passwords, sudo > asks for the old root password? > Sudo doesn't ask for *root*'s password. It asks for *your* password. If you knew root's password, you wouldn't need to use sudo. You could use su. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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