> Quakeboy02
Should be safe since that line should still require a password, however are you certain you don't have any open ports and are not running a service like SSH? Some distributions ship with SSH live and open.
Also I once saw a guy do "sudo rm -rf /*" at work... just having to put sudo infront doesn't stop you doing it if your use to typing sudo when doing similar commands. Personally I have never even got anywhere close to executing that command however.
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Originally Posted by smeezekitty
Ubuntus horrable prompts remind me of windows vistas UAC
that i disabled the first day
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As has already been said, you are a security hole ya know, UAC was introduced so that people would not browse the internet as administrator and the prompts only come up with things are asking to be installed. However UAC is only a half-arsed attempt at security because it's still by-passable by viruses (IE conflicker) and we don't know actually how secure that prompt really is... could it be hi-jacked?
It's actually safer to have a seperate administrator account and user account (the traditional Windows Method and similarly the method I use on my Mac), however there are applications that actually take advantage of this EXTREMELY bad method of administrating a PC... it's really rather shameless how professional software development companies require administrator rights for their applications for them to be run at all and this is when they are already installed.
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Originally Posted by unSpawn
I think that would hold true if Sudo came with explicit usage instructions. AFAIK it does not. (I do get what you mean though.)
I think jschiwal's post #25 explains that.
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That wasn't the point I was making, the point I was making is that your saying we should respect the way the developers want it done is not true if they are using things from other developers and not respecting the way developers intended those tools to be used.
However even so as Jschiwal's post also says, it's a bad thing. I am yet to see what protection this is all suppose to offer anyway. I mean most if not all up-to-date distributions warn you heavily about login in as root on GUI or stop you all together on the and I can't see what on the CLI would be any more open to being logged in as root over using sudo.
All I really see coming out of it, is teaching people how to abuse SUDO and not really consider using sudo for things like only giving people the privellages on the indivual commands or scripts that they need.