Re: sudo password vs. login

From: John Hasler <jhasler@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 13:00:12 -0500

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

On the flip side, though, you should change the root passowrd anyway when
removing someone from sudo access, since you have no idea if they even
have the root password. They had access to the shadow file

That depends on what privileges they had.
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