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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:17:45 -0500
From:      Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com>
To:        Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Offtopic
Message-ID:  <01758D8D-664C-11D7-AB40-000393A335A2@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030402230154.GA23852@peitho.fxp.org>

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On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 06:01 PM, Bob Bomar wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:20:27PM -0600, Fabio Miranda Hamburger 
> wrote:
>> Hi, I have a couple of question:
>>
>> 1. A technique for an intruder to keep a root account was creating a 
>> stuid
>> root shell, that is not possible on FreeBSD nowadays, Why is not 
>> possible?
>> How a program like sudo can do that? Foe example, If i am a sudo 'full
>> admin' I can do this without passwd:
>> %sudo su
>> #
>
> sudo executes the command as root, and since the systems sees su
> being executed as root, you wont need that password.
>

Also it depends on how sudo is setup.  If passwords are enabled you'd 
have to enter your password.

--Larry



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