Re: shared root account

[Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:15:43AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> the main reason i don't use sudo except for small things which cannot
> grant a root shell in any way is for the simple reason the sudo
> converts a normal unprivleged user password into another root
> password.  

Any user account that has access to the administrative account if
compromised can give the attacker the admin account etc.
sudo here is no worse than having your account compromised, your keys
sniffed and su really.


Simon.

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