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

Stephen Carville stephen at totalflood.com
Wed Nov 29 17:06:38 EST 2006


Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> 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.

True but trip wire should catch that.

> Matt
> 
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