5 Dec
2005
5 Dec
'05
4:42 p.m.
On 12/5/05, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
My only query is that if root access is not allowed for security, still anyone can simply sudo and gain access. How is the system protected from outside. If anyone can hack into the user account, can he then sudo and play ball? How secure is this sudo?
Anyone cant sudo! When you create an account during the setup, you are creating an account that the will have the root previleges. That is the reason you are not asked the password for the root user when you use sudo. To change the root password you can use 'passwd root' and then try. It should ask you for the root password whenever you use sudo.
-- Regards, Sanket Medhi.