<div dir="ltr">I am under the continuing impression that su has nothing to do with sudoers on a centos based system.<div>Phil W</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:59 PM James Mcphee <<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">the main reason root is in sudoers is so when you type (or copy/paste) as root it still works, but the instrux can be more general for users with sudoers privileges.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM der.hans <<a href="mailto:PLUGd@lufthans.com" target="_blank">PLUGd@lufthans.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Am 16. Oct, 2019 schwätzte Phil Waclawski so:<br>
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moin moin,<br>
<br>
> So, I see the recent major bug with sudo, and on centos (unlike ubuntu<br>
> flavors) I never use it.<br>
><br>
> Is there a problem with just commenting out the<br>
><br>
> root ALL = ALL(ALL) in the sudoers file?<br>
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Depends on whether or not you have any scripts that depend on it.<br>
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> I don't think su is in any way connected to sudoers, but I want to check<br>
> before I do something stupid.<br>
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su and sudo are different tools and still weren't interconnected a few<br>
years ago. Haven't verified recently, but the should still not be<br>
interconnected.<br>
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Both are still SETUID for their superpowers.<br>
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ciao,<br>
<br>
der.hans<br>
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> I have done some searching and I can't get an answer about this so far.<br>
><br>
> Phil Waclawski<br>
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