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.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:

Am 16. Oct, 2019 schwätzte Phil Waclawski so:

moin moin,

> So, I see the recent major bug with sudo, and on centos (unlike ubuntu
> flavors)  I never use it.
>
> Is there a problem with just commenting out the
>
> root ALL = ALL(ALL)    in the sudoers file?

Depends on whether or not you have any scripts that depend on it.

> I don't think su is in any way connected to sudoers, but I want to check
> before I do something stupid.

su and sudo are different tools and still weren't interconnected a few
years ago. Haven't verified recently, but the should still not be
interconnected.

Both are still SETUID for their superpowers.

ciao,

der.hans

> I have done some  searching and I can't get an answer about this so far.
>
> Phil Waclawski

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