ssh and tty and sudoers file.

[Knapp]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>wrote:

> Brian McKee wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The original idea was that if you get hacked somehow (weak keys comes to
> >> mind from that programming error) then the hacker is not allowed to use
> >> su (turned off)or sudo (limited to localhost use only).
> >>
> >> You could do what you say but that would make it so that if you needed
> >> sudo you must sign out of your normal account and sign in as a sysop.
> >> Sudo was made to avoid that in the first place.
> >
> > As opposed to signing off and moving to the console to log in locally?
>
> No, as opposed to signing off and using a shared password to log into the
> root account.
>
> > Not sure I see the gain unless it's more of a single user box than a
> > server, but note my last suggestion
>
> And this particular advantage of sudo is only really applicable to servers.
>
> --
> derek


Don't mean to be mean but the subject of this email IS ssh and tty and
sudoers file.
SSH is a server.
Thus, when I am at home with my computer I want to use sudo but when I am at
work I really don't need it or does anyone else that might hack into my my
computer from a remote place thus blocking all people that are not at my
keyboard is a good idea.

Also this computer does have about 10 others that use it. Not a lot but
enough to make it sort of public.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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