Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:45:25 -0400 From: "Jonathan Fortin" <jfortin@akalink.com> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@jeah.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disabling The Root Account Message-ID: <00ba01c0d340$6f1097e0$0200320a@node00> References: <20010502142336.I30799-100000@awww.jeah.net>
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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" <jslivko@jeah.net> To: "John Congdon" <john@tradeweb.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <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
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