I know, I know. DON'T USE ROOT. So before we get into philosophy, I don't run the GUI as root. However....
I personally prefer (and think it is safer) to be behind TWO passwords when it comes to changing system settings on my machines. I use one password for my user accounts, but prefer that the admin/root password be something else. That way no one that does get into my user account will be able to SUDO their way any further.
Yes, I could take my user account out of the sudoers group. But then I can't do anything from that account either.
So, to enable a separate root password, I need to be able to specify rootpw, which was easy to do with kdm. This disables the user password in sudo. sudo will then only respond to the rootpw.
So, now I'm looking for a way to do this in lightdm.
I can enable a root login in lightdm, but this appears to log me in as root in the gui, something that I don't often do. I just want to make sudo take a password different from the user password for the account.
Frank.
I personally prefer (and think it is safer) to be behind TWO passwords when it comes to changing system settings on my machines. I use one password for my user accounts, but prefer that the admin/root password be something else. That way no one that does get into my user account will be able to SUDO their way any further.
Yes, I could take my user account out of the sudoers group. But then I can't do anything from that account either.
So, to enable a separate root password, I need to be able to specify rootpw, which was easy to do with kdm. This disables the user password in sudo. sudo will then only respond to the rootpw.
So, now I'm looking for a way to do this in lightdm.
I can enable a root login in lightdm, but this appears to log me in as root in the gui, something that I don't often do. I just want to make sudo take a password different from the user password for the account.
Frank.
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