multiple root accounts

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Mar 7 14:29:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 09:25 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote:
> 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?
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you're right - I wasn't thinking

Craig




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