sudo versus #

[Johnneylee Rollins]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Rashkae wrote:
>>> KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>> That does not take care of policy-kit however, which is a different
>>> kettle of fish entirely.  Policy-kit are mostly those windows that have
>>> an "Unlock" button.  Probably the easiest way to prevent your user
>>> password from unlocking those is to remove your user from the "Admin'
>>> Group,, but be certain that your root password, su and gksu are working
>>> as you expect fist.
>>>
>>
>> That sounds scary, because won't that mean that when I start up Gnome
>> (er.. it starts up on boot) and log in as my mere user (as I am supposed
>> to for security reasons) and then fire up terminals that use the
>> /etc/passwd entry for my mere user to decide start up shell, these
>> terminals will not be able to jump to root? That's not what I want if
>> that's the case.  If I am confused, feel free to explain.
>>
>>
>
> Or you know, since you don't have have quite as much old school set ways
> as I first assumed, you can just do it like the cool kids and rely on
> one password for your user account also acting as super-user password.
>
> I'm too drunk to get into more details tonight,, if you do decide to
> pursue and experiment (really, what have you got to loose), I would
> suggest not bothering with anythign Karl adds to the discussion...
> that's my last word of sage suggestions.
>
Why is it we're always drunk on Wednesday? Oh and you can always have
your user have no password requirement for sudo.

 user_name  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

~SpaceGhost

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