Re: [users]Re: Linux Vs Windows in security (II)

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 13:51:04 Chris wrote: <snip>
> > Well, either you or me are mistaken.
> > 'cause anyone who has access to sudo, can change the root pass, EVEN
> > without knowing it.
> >
>
> Actually (and technically) the "root" account is locked by default in
> Ubuntu - meaning you can't login as root.
>
> Since this IS an Ubuntu list, Fernando "technically" answered correctly
> however, in Linux (and for that matter Unix) you can't.

Somehow, somewhere, our ideas must have gotten mixed up, because I NEVER said that you would be able to login as root. I said that if a user was able to CONNECT to ssh remotedly, and HAD permitions to run sudo, then he/she would be able to set/change the root password, using sudo passwd root. And this can be done in most Linux dist, even with the root being disable.

Are we clear on that?

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