17 Jul
2006
17 Jul
'06
12:30 p.m.
On 17/07/06 09:49 +0530, Gabin Kattukaran wrote:
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 18:34 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Sunday 16 July 2006 15:01, Mr. Prasanta Baruah wrote:
If you modify your /etc/sudoers file to username ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL
Dangerous! Extremely dangerous!!
"Dangerous" doesn't do it justice. More like - insane!
Bleh. This is perfectly safe to set if you use strong passwords (and/or restrict ssh access to key based access only), and you are the only user on your system.
I wouldn't recommend this on laptops, or any system to which multiple people have access. On a regular desktop, the benefits outweigh the risks (anyone who has access to your personal desktop already has the ability to do more damage than sudo will give anyway).
Devdas Bhagat