Bruce Marshall < bmarsh at bmarsh.com >

[Derek Broughton]

Greg Booth wrote:

> 
>> 1. Get the facts about sudo.
> 
> That's why I was asking this question. 
...
> As for the security of the system if you have sudo you only have to have
> any users account password to be able to access root authority. 

see above :-)  That's simply wrong.  If you use sudo, as initially set up by
ubuntu, you need to have the _first_ user's password to be able to get root
access.  _No_ other user you create has sudo access unless you yourself add
them to /etc/sudoers.

So a hacker needs to know who the first user on the system is before he can
have a username that has full sudo access.
-- 
derek