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Re: Looking at su versus sudo

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Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> writes:
> [...] "sudo su -" requires the same password as the user does to log
> in, meaning that if that user's password is stolen, so is their root
> access.

Not quite; sudo uses PAM, so you can configure it to require, say, a
one-time password in addition to the user's regular password.

> You can (and should) use a different password for your root
> "principle" [...]

s/principle/principal/

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

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Looking at su versus sudo RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-20 13:18 +0000
  Re: Looking at su versus sudo Alan Ralph <alan.ralph@gmail.com> - 2014-03-20 15:24 +0000
    Re: Looking at su versus sudo RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-20 15:45 +0000
  Re: Looking at su versus sudo Alvaro Martínez <alvaro.gmj@gmail.com> - 2014-03-20 23:11 -0300
    Re: Looking at su versus sudo RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-21 09:35 +0000
    Re: Looking at su versus sudo Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-21 18:07 +0000
      Re: Looking at su versus sudo Alvaro Martínez <alvaro.gmj@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 00:23 -0300
  Re: Looking at su versus sudo Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-22 10:07 +0000
    Re: Looking at su versus sudo Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-03-22 16:32 +0100
      Re: Looking at su versus sudo Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-22 19:18 +0000
        Re: Looking at su versus sudo Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-23 12:34 +0200
          Re: Looking at su versus sudo Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-23 11:34 +0000
        Re: Looking at su versus sudo Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-03-23 13:03 +0100

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