Re: SUDO vs root account question

[Ian <cdine.org () gmail com>]

That would give him root privs, he could sudo su -, and that's that.
As for the timing, I'm not sure about that but I'm sure others on this
list can help with it.


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:47:30 +0200, Tahis Vera <tahis.vera () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have two quick questions related to the 'sudo' command;
> putting a certain user Mr.X with ALL=(ALL)ALL permissions in the
> sudoers file, gives him COMPLETE root previleges? In other words, if I
> want that some people, for security reasons, stop using the root
> account/password for accessing the servers, by crating a sudo user
> with ALL previledges will decrease this risk? If this sudo account  is
> compromised, will the cracker have COMPLETE root previleges?
>
> The other questions is how to set the time (in sudoers file) for the
> user to work with sudo, without having to write the password (let's
> say that I want to work for 20 minutes without having to write the
> password again)
>
> regards
>
> Tahis