Re: securing debian

[Carl Mummert <mummert@tinuviel.cs.wcu.edu>]

Chris wrote:
> > > You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for
> > > all your root access.  If you do that, then you can change the
> > > encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow
> > > passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root.
> > > 

Is this really a good thing? ...  What happens when you need to add a
command to sudo, or when you need to come up in maintenance mode?

Carl
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