From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66307158020 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C956EE09F1; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68D74E09BB for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 29QKIRfn022044 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!! To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20221026192203.4721a707@digimed.co.uk> <44b8fdd1-a618-ad1c-3b9b-e256ad555440@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20221026210823.70f96fcc@digimed.co.uk> From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: <09a7ac00-25d8-da1f-e952-dfbf8b1a11f4@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:17:30 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20221026210823.70f96fcc@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 95da3262-db0d-4a06-bc06-0634cf37ff5e X-Archives-Hash: c274d2564d30a4edad80e720aca4d3b4 On 10/26/22 2:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > So they have root access, nothing has changed. How they get root > access is irrelevant, just that they have it. No, how they get root access is not irrelevant. If your only access to root is via sudo and you break sudo you no longer have root access. If you don't have root access through something other than sudo, you can't fix your sudo (from your existing system). -- Grant. . . . unix || die