Can you remove the root user from sudoers file on CentOS?

[Phil Waclawski]

I am under the continuing impression that su has nothing to do with sudoers
on a centos based system.
Phil W

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 6:59 PM James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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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