Re: SUDO vs root account question

[Blaine Lefler <blaine () theleflers com>]

Tahis
	The situation that you described will allow root access. There is one 
other issue with sudo. Sudo will allow shell escapes. There is a whole 
section on the sudo page at http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/ to help 
prevent this. I used to use sudo a lot at another company and it work 
well. Blaine


Tahis Vera wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have two quick questions related to the 'sudo' command;
> putting a certain user Mr.X with ALL=(ALL)ALL permissions in the
> sudoers file, gives him COMPLETE root previleges? In other words, if I
> want that some people, for security reasons, stop using the root
> account/password for accessing the servers, by crating a sudo user
> with ALL previledges will decrease this risk? If this sudo account  is
> compromised, will the cracker have COMPLETE root previleges?
>
> The other questions is how to set the time (in sudoers file) for the
> user to work with sudo, without having to write the password (let's
> say that I want to work for 20 minutes without having to write the
> password again)
>
> regards
>
> Tahis