On 12/1/05, Christian Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote: > > sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing > > yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than > > intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent > > is to increase resistance to unauthorized access. > > The sudo/wheel approach is also a handy one when you want to update > the root password regularly, but you do not want to tell it to > everyone. Say you work in an heterogenous enterprise with lots of > admins having their unix workstation. They need root permissions on > their desktop machine, but you do not want to distribute the root > password (lacking the encrypted channel to reach everyone for example). > > Then you can add them to the wheel group and give them a root > shell that way. Meanwhile you can update the root password > without any problem. > > Ubuntu follows this road a bit further by setting a random root > password nobody actually knows. This seems consequent to me. But > having to explain to my boss why i do not know the root password of > our linux workstations did not seem that attractive.
sudo passwd lets you set the root password of course. :-) greets, Wim
