On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:19 -0400, Brad Banko wrote: > I hope you don't mind me chiming in... I am a user who has used sudo and > been pleased with having the flexibility to give root commands, do system > wide searches without having to login as root... > > Does having sudo privileges (not restricted, but equivalent to root) give > you the power to "take root"... change root's password? (e.g., ' sudo > passwd root ...' ) I know that I don't appreciate the security issues > fully of logging in as root (restricted to a terminal) versus using sudo in > a terminal window ( sudo authority has a time expiration on it and requires > the sudoers password to initiate ). > . A basic configuration would allow a sudo caller to change the root password. > And if sudo doesn't give a user the ability to "take root", what does one do > if one forgets their root password? Boot the system to single user mode or boot rescue media and change it that way. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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