About root

[Derek Broughton]

Christopher Chan wrote:

> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher:
>>
>>   
>>> IIRC, an active root account will break
>>> one or two services for Hardy and Intrepid.
>>>     
>>
>> Really? Could you be more specific, please?
>>
>>   
> 
> I got it messed up. I cannot find it right now but it was either on
> sounder or something and it is not just enabling root. It was also
> blowing away the sudoers setup too. Somebody wanted to make it 'normal'
> and that person was informed that at least one service depended on the
> sudoers setup or something. It was a thread where one chap really hates
> the sudoers setup and claims it is absolutely insecure. Nevermind.

Right.  _many_ services use sudo, and thus "sudoers", and if you removed the 
sudoers file you'd need to create a new /usr/bin/sudo wrapper to translate 
"sudo" commands into valid "su" commands.  A lot of work for a principle 
probably better served by choosing another distro :-)
-- 
derek