On 01/12/05, Christian Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sudo/wheel approach is also a handy one when you want to update > the root password regularly, but you do not want to tell it to > everyone. Say you work in an heterogenous enterprise with lots of > admins having their unix workstation. They need root permissions on > their desktop machine, but you do not want to distribute the root > password (lacking the encrypted channel to reach everyone for example). > > Then you can add them to the wheel group and give them a root > shell that way. Meanwhile you can update the root password > without any problem.
What would be the point of updating the root password in this case? > Ubuntu follows this road a bit further by setting a random root > password nobody actually knows. That's untrue, and would be a very bad idea. > having to explain to my boss why i do not know the root password of > our linux workstations did not seem that attractive. Why, is he really stupid? -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/
