<html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">su and sudo are two different things.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Also, root is simply a moniker for userid 0 by convention.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">With SU, to gain elevated privs, you need the root password. And with that password, you have all the keys to the kingdom.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">SUDO, on the other hand allows granular elevation. So, you can have root access to add users, but not start services, or to start and stop services, but not view logs.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Also, if you go into /etc/passed, and rename account 0 (zero), from root to thegrandguru, su and sudo will elevate your privs, from the user to that of thegrandguru. If you create an accout called root, with a userid of 1005, root will be just a common user, but thegrandguru is what you generally think of as root.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Realize that all this is about getting your privs to that of userid=0<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Kevin Fries<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Oct 16, 2019, at 5:31 PM, Harold Hartley <<a href="mailto:wheelie207@ownmail.net" target="_blank">wheelie207@ownmail.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-family:Arial;">I think su is short for sudo.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Wed, Oct 16, 2019, at 16:02, Phil Waclawski wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div style="font-family:Arial;">So, I see the recent major bug with sudo, and on centos (unlike ubuntu flavors) I never use it. <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Is there a problem with just commenting out the <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">root ALL = ALL(ALL) in the sudoers file?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I don't think su is in any way connected to sudoers, but I want to check before I do something stupid.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I have done some searching and I can't get an answer about this so far.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Phil Waclawski<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div id="sig4468849"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature"> Harold Hartley<br></div><div class="signature"> 17632 N. 5th place<br></div><div class="signature"> Phoenix, AZ 85022<br></div><div class="signature"> wheelie207@ownmail.net<br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><pre class="blue"><hr><br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>