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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2003 18:01:54 -0500
From:      Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>
To:        Fabio Miranda Hamburger <fabmirha@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Offtopic
Message-ID:  <20030402230154.GA23852@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303181314590.32236-100000@ns.isi.ulatina.ac.cr>

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:20:27PM -0600, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote:
> Hi, I have a couple of question:
> 
> 1. A technique for an intruder to keep a root account was creating a stuid
> root shell, that is not possible on FreeBSD nowadays, Why is not possible?
> How a program like sudo can do that? Foe example, If i am a sudo 'full
> admin' I can do this without passwd:
> %sudo su
> #

sudo executes the command as root, and since the systems sees su
being executed as root, you wont need that password.

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