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Re: [athena10] sudo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Jan 22 15:40:53 2009
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:39:44 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
CC: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>, Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>,
Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>,
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Setting rootpw for sudo is weird. The goal here is to provide a means of
becoming root that non-Athena users are used to. I've never seen a
system configured with rootpw for sudo before, so that seems kind of
counterproductive.
- Evan
Sam Hartman wrote:
> I'd definitely feel a lot more comfortable with rootpw being the
> default than asking for the user's password.
>
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