[NTLUG:Discuss] Virus / Worm problems

[Eric Waguespack]

sorry... your going to have to help me with this.

You are saying that the use of sudo is less secure than using root?
Either I misunderstood you or I need to go back to Unix 101.

Please enlighten me.


On 10/6/06, Wayne Walker <wwalker at bybent.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:33:25AM -0500, Terry Henderson wrote:
> > Ubuntu uses sudo for everything and has no root user account, (it is
> > dissabled by default).
> > BUT, it can easily be enabled;
> >
> >    sudo passwd root
> > and then dissabled again:
> >    sudo passwd -1 root
> >
> > Does this make Ubuntu more or less secure?
> MUCH less secure.
>
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