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Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install



On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:50:00PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> 
> What makes root special is not the name but the numerical user id and group id, bot set to zero. See /etc/passwd.

Don't you have to be logged in to do that? 
The issue was that there would be only one exploitable account, if root
was disabled by installing sudo.

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