On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:39:12AM +0930, n0dalus wrote:
In what way would it benefit a majority of users? I could be wrong,
but I suspect the majority of Fedora installations only have one
administrator, in which case, sudo actually ends up making things
_less_ secure (it provides another account by which root access can be
cracked). The majority of Fedora setups, including many ones with just
It's a marginal benefit, though, because once that user account is
compromised, the root password could be captured with relative ease.
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