This trick didn't work for me with Debian 40r0(etch).<br><br><b><i>Kev <kdownes@tpg.com.au></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Gavin Chester wrote:<br>> <br>> You guys were freaking me out with news of this MASSIVE security<br>> hole :-( Convenience, be damned! i don't want anybody having that level<br>> of privileged access other than 'root'. So, I had to test both methods<br>> and was able to breath easy:<br>> <br>> gavin@linux:~> sudo su -<br>> root's password:<br>> Sorry, try again.<br>> root's password:<br>> Sorry, try again.<br>> root's password:<br>> sudo: 2 incorrect password attempts<br>> gavin@linux:~> sudo -i<br>> root's password:<br>> Sorry, try again.<br>> <br>> This a default install of suse10.1, so bless 'em for looking after<br>> ignorant users like me ;-) Is it just unsafe with debian-based<br>>
distros, I wonder ;-)<br><br>Xansros is a Debian distro which gives the exact same response as <br>Gavin's SuSE.<br><br>Cheers<br>-- <br>=======================================================================<br>Kev Downes<br>kdownes@tpg.com.au ph 0404 7 0808 2<br>We use and recommend Xandros 4.1<br>=======================================================================<br>There are 10 types of people ...<br> ... those who understand binary, and those who don't!<br>=======================================================================<br>"Jesus Christ is the centre of everything and the object of everything;<br>He who does not know him, knows nothing of the order of the world<br>and nothing of himself." Blaise Pascal<br>=======================================================================<br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br>http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<br>Committee e-mail:
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