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Re: Sudo ... use or delete?

From Antonio Russo <aerusso@aerusso.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Sudo ... use or delete?
Date 2021-01-29 17:00 +0100
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On 1/29/21 8:54 AM, john doe wrote:
> In the case of sudo, you could deny the use of sudo by removing all
> users from the sudoers file or by denying sudo access  explicitly in the
> sudoers file.
> 
> -- 
> John Doe
> 

As I understand it, this would not have protected against the recent local
privilege escalation bug in sudo.  If you're interested in improving
security, the desire is to reduce the total amount of privileged code on
the machine.

(Though removing people from sudoers obviously helps.)

Antonio

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Sudo ... use or delete? Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-01-29 16:00 +0100
  Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-29 16:00 +0100
  Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Antonio Russo <aerusso@aerusso.net> - 2021-01-29 16:20 +0100
    Re: Sudo ... use or delete? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-29 16:50 +0100
      Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2021-01-29 18:40 +0100
        Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-01-29 19:30 +0100
          Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-29 20:50 +0100
  Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2021-01-29 17:00 +0100
    Re: Sudo ... use or delete? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-01-29 17:00 +0100
      Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Antonio Russo <aerusso@aerusso.net> - 2021-01-29 17:00 +0100
        Re: Sudo ... use or delete? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-01-29 17:30 +0100
    Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-01-29 18:10 +0100
  Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-29 20:50 +0100
    Re: Sudo ... use or delete? Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-01-30 14:30 +0100

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