[plug] Interesting command that may make root access more fun ..

[Richard Meyer]

Funny, my son is actually using Debian 4.0, and he's the one who showed
me ....



On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 22:20 +1000, Joshua Chase wrote:
> This trick didn't work for me with Debian 40r0(etch).
> 
> Kev <kdownes at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>         Gavin Chester wrote:
>         > 
>         > You guys were freaking me out with news of this MASSIVE
>         security
>         > hole :-( Convenience, be damned! i don't want anybody having
>         that level
>         > of privileged access other than 'root'. So, I had to test
>         both methods
>         > and was able to breath easy:
>         > 
>         > gavin at linux:~> sudo su -
>         > root's password:
>         > Sorry, try again.
>         > root's password:
>         > Sorry, try again.
>         > root's password:
>         > sudo: 2 incorrect password attempts
>         > gavin at linux:~> sudo -i
>         > root's password:
>         > Sorry, try again.
>         > 
>         > This a default install of suse10.1, so bless 'em for looking
>         after
>         > ignorant users like me ;-) Is it just unsafe with
>         debian-based
>         > distros, I wonder ;-)
>         
>         Xansros is a Debian distro which gives the exact same response
>         as 
>         Gavin's SuSE.
>         
>         Cheers
>         -- 
>         =======================================================================
>         Kev Downes
>         kdownes at tpg.com.au ph 0404 7 0808 2
>         We use and recommend Xandros 4.1
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