Re: SUDO vs root account question

From: Ian (cdine.org_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/23/05

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    Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:18:06 -0800
To: Tahis Vera <tahis.vera@gmail.com>

    That would give him root privs, he could sudo su -, and that's that.
    As for the timing, I'm not sure about that but I'm sure others on this
    list can help with it.

    On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:47:30 +0200, Tahis Vera <tahis.vera@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Hi all,
    > I have two quick questions related to the 'sudo' command;
    > putting a certain user Mr.X with ALL=(ALL)ALL permissions in the
    > sudoers file, gives him COMPLETE root previleges? In other words, if I
    > want that some people, for security reasons, stop using the root
    > account/password for accessing the servers, by crating a sudo user
    > with ALL previledges will decrease this risk? If this sudo account is
    > compromised, will the cracker have COMPLETE root previleges?
    >
    > The other questions is how to set the time (in sudoers file) for the
    > user to work with sudo, without having to write the password (let's
    > say that I want to work for 20 minutes without having to write the
    > password again)
    >
    > regards
    >
    > Tahis
    >

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