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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Permissions of /etc/sudoers
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:37:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gmp82a$801$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E47BA080-7734-404A-B9C8-A41307B778E9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

Stroller wrote:
> I install sudo, give my user wide sudo rights and then set 
> "PermitRootLogin no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
> (Critique of this measure welcomed).

Since Hung already answered about the other problem, I'll just comment 
on this.

It's a bad idea if the machine is open to the Internet, especially since 
it's easy to simply "su -" or "sudo" as a normal user.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-09 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-09  4:36 [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers Stroller
2009-02-09  6:43 ` Michael Hentsch
2009-02-11 23:52   ` b.n.
2009-02-11 23:57     ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-12  0:01     ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2009-02-12  3:55       ` Stroller
2009-02-12  0:01     ` Paul Hartman
2009-02-12  0:04       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-02-09 12:37 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-02-09 13:05   ` [gentoo-user] " Heiko Wundram
2009-02-09 13:15     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-09 14:20       ` Saphirus Sage
2009-02-09 14:25         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-10  8:21       ` Heiko Wundram
2009-02-09 17:02     ` Stroller
2009-02-09 18:26       ` Nikos Chantziaras

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