Not Remembering Root Password

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On 03/06/2009 02:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 23:33 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:

> 
> To sum up: privileges are there to protect you both from malice and from
> idiotic mistakes. If you're the only user, you get to be the idiot from
> time to time.
> 
> poc
> 

Not arguing against the concerns - there is a difference between having
a user account with priveleges and a user account that can elevate to
get priveleges via sudo.

 Even with NOPASSWD he still needs to run sudo does he not ? Not sure
how you accidently run sudo /bin/rm -rf /

gene