[sudo-users] How to prevent editing sudoers-file

Matthew Hannigan mlh at zip.com.au
Mon Nov 27 19:34:40 EST 2006


On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:32:33PM +0100, Claude Hohl wrote:
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> > OK, thank you guys for the tips. I solved the problem about the  
> > writable sudoers file this way:
> > Sudoers is located on a dedicated server; and it's exported via NFS  
> > as a read-only filesystem. therefore, even as root you can not  
> > write on it!

But you could edit the sudo binary to use a different sudoers file.

You've raised the bar a bit, but not much.

Matt





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