Some questions for a newbie

Joe Klemmer klemmerj at webtrek.com
Mon Jul 28 20:39:23 CEST 2003


On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 08:52, haywiremac wrote:

> I'm unclear here. I am unfamiliar with sudo, but what is the point of
> having a root password if sudo lets you do anything you want as root
> without the password?

	Normally you would not use sudo with the NOPASSWD switch.  Sudo is
primarily used to give certain users root access to specific commands. 

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