Re: user created at install added in sudoers ?

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:39:12AM +0930, n0dalus wrote:
> In what way would it benefit a majority of users? I could be wrong,
> but I suspect the majority of Fedora installations only have one
> administrator, in which case, sudo actually ends up making things
> _less_ secure (it provides another account by which root access can be
> cracked). The majority of Fedora setups, including many ones with just

It's a marginal benefit, though, because once that user account is
compromised, the root password could be captured with relative ease.


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