On 8/25/05, Ian Hastie <ianh@iahastie.clara.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> This is a bad idea as it creates two effective root passwords. One of
> them even has the ability to log in through the network. Just find the
> priveleged user's password and then change the real root one.
> 
> 
<OT>
You have a point here but I find it easier to grant sudo priviledges to the 
admins rather than try to give them all the root password, and since we 
change our root weekly (policies... bah) it would be a maintenance nightmare 
to try to keep everyone in the loop. Plus sudo offers the ability to revoke 
root priviledges plus the ability to limit sudo rights to a set of commands 
(if you so choose). Overall I think sudo is the better way to go. But thats 
just my $0.02
</OT>

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