[CentOS] change sudoers remotely

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 05:02:58PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> 
> Since doing what you did just told the world a username that they can try
> to break in with.

Assuming it's internet facing.

> Second, sudoers should ALWAYS be edited with visudo, and you might do a
> here script....

Hardly.  If you're using any type of provisioning system with a tested
template this type of thing is trivial to do right.

Tim, if you're using C6 look into dropping a properly configured sudo
config into /etc/sudoers.d instead of mucking with /etc/sudoers.conf.





							John
-- 
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Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.

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