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disable root, sudoers
Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Feb 13, '05 06:51:43PM

In other words, anything root can do, an admin user can do.

Including becoming root. If you can sudo, you can "sudo -s", which gives you persistent root access.

The only advantage is that, if you disable root, you can restrict who is able to sudo. That is, "root" is a guessable user name, but perhaps the single user that you've allowed to sudo is not. Otherwise it appears to be just as much of a security issue.

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