user created at install added in sudoers ?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 05:20:41 UTC 2007


On 6/20/07, Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> On 6/19/07, n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com> 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).
>
> In a "1st user gets sudo" scenario, I'd lock the root account. It
> wouldn't be _another_ account to crack, it would be a different
> account.


You can pry root from my cold, dead hands.


> Plus, root accounts are known to be present. Usernames with sudo
> access would need to be guessed or discovered through other means.
>
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