On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:50:00PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > What makes root special is not the name but the numerical user id and group > id, bot set to zero. See /etc/passwd.
Don't you have to be logged in to do that? The issue was that there would be only one exploitable account, if root was disabled by installing sudo. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131211112828.GJ7879@tal
