[CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Mon Mar 30 08:06:51 UTC 2009


Christopher Chan wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> Christopher Chan wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> start/stop' though from Intrepid onwards I believe. There is no root 
>>> account by default.
>>>     
>> There is a root account, you just can't access it w/o setting it's password.
>>   
> Oh you can. sudo -i. Now go away.

Yeah, I meant no *direct* root login.
The whole sudo sh etc. giving root shell is why I despise the OS X / 
ubuntu default configuration.

-=-

I don't have a problem with sudo, I just have a problem with sudo 
configurations that make it cake to spawn a root shell.



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