multiple root accounts

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Tue Mar 7 09:25:19 UTC 2006


On Monday 06 March 2006 19:23, Craig White decided we wanted to hear the 
following:
> craig   ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> would do something similar but you would have to supply root password to
> have root privileges.
technically, no.
You would have to supply your *own* password.
The whole point of sudo is to prevent handing out the root password.
After all, if your users all knew the root password, why would they bother 
using sudo in the first place?

Regards

Stuart
-- 
Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
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