[NTLUG:Discuss] Virus / Worm problems

[Eric Waguespack]

Oh, that must have ment that enabling root on ubuntu is less secure,
that I would agree with.



On 10/6/06, Eric Waguespack <ewaguespack at gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry... your going to have to help me with this.
>
> You are saying that the use of sudo is less secure than using root?
> Either I misunderstood you or I need to go back to Unix 101.
>
> Please enlighten me.
>
>
> On 10/6/06, Wayne Walker <wwalker at bybent.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:33:25AM -0500, Terry Henderson wrote:
> > > Ubuntu uses sudo for everything and has no root user account, (it is
> > > dissabled by default).
> > > BUT, it can easily be enabled;
> > >
> > >    sudo passwd root
> > > and then dissabled again:
> > >    sudo passwd -1 root
> > >
> > > Does this make Ubuntu more or less secure?
> > MUCH less secure.
> >
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