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Re: [LUG] Security Thoughts
- To: DCLUG ML <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [LUG] Security Thoughts
- From: Brad Rogers via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:10:53 +0100
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:24:20 +0100
Neil via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Neil,
>possible/easy to set one password to log on and another one to use with
>sudo? And secondly, if so, is it a good idea?
Not with one user. Martin suggests a method that works, but you need to
change user to perform any admin; Switch to admin user, then perform
admin tasks. That requires logging into a second account, then issuing
an "sudo....blah, blah". Multi-staging like that gets old pretty
quickly. Kind of negates the whole point of sudo, which is to give
users limited, short-term, access to privileged commands.
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