Restricting root
Dana Kaempen
decay at flash.net
Tue Mar 26 14:19:41 EST 2002
Ben wrote:
> However our security department has concerns about allowing the root account to use sudo.
root can already do anything that root wants to, unless you have root going into a restricted shell, which would be pretty goofy. sudo merely gives *other users* the capability to run commands _as_ root.
> Is this a valid security concern?
Not that I can see... Sounds like a security department that's not seeing the whole picture.
Dana
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