[Wolves] sudoers file

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Sat Jun 26 11:14:01 BST 2004


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Old Dan wrote:

| I'm just bothered by the fact that the command 'sudo su' works.

We used to block a lot more of these on our shared colo box but now
allow root logins for maintainance as it can get unmanagable when you
really have to just get some quick access to a root shell to perform a
million upgrades at once. Sudo for daily stuff.

| Disturbing as it means the root password means squat diddly if someone
| finds out my user password, at least with the default settings.

Which is a reason to migrate to SELinux or RBAC Linux over time.
Hopefully I will be migrating my production systems over the next 6-12
months so that one can feel a little more secure at night - when one
combines this with encrypted root then one is getting somewhere.

Jon.
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