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Re: Unidentified subject!



On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:38:38PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> If you have sudo installed (you *do* have it installed, don't you?) and 
> have your user configured with enough permissions, you might can simply 
> "sudo passwd root".

If anyone configure sudo with what you call "enough permissions", they
thereby defeats the whole purpose of sudo, and in addition makes it
easier for a hacker to become root.

-- 
Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Hans Ekbrand

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