"switchin off" sudo completely ???

[fatbloke]

I'd like to switch sudo off completely. So hows that done?

I've made the root password, but can't find where or how to dump sudo. By personal preference, I prefer having to use the more conventional methods of doing system with root, and user stuff, well with the user account.

Can someone point me in the right direction please

regards

fatbloke

[fatbloke]

Re: "switchin off" sudo completely

rm it from /usr/bin?

Thought about that, but doesn't that kill other parts of the system

regards

fatbloke

[JoeTheHoe]

Re: "switchin off" sudo completely

Or you can just enable root login, so you wont have to use sudo in that respect... Just login as root, no more sudo :-D

[aysiu]

Re: "switchin off" sudo completely

Use Mepis 6, which is based off Ubuntu but uses the traditional root/user model.

Or you can follow these instructions to make sudo applications ask for the root password.

[fatbloke]

Re: "switchin off" sudo completely

Use Mepis 6, which is based off Ubuntu but uses the traditional root/user model.

Or you can follow these instructions to make sudo applications ask for the root password.

Which tell me that

Let sudo ask for the root password

You can make sudo ask for the root password instead of the user password, you can do this by adding the keyword rootpw to the line in /etc/sudoers that starts with Defaults.

<!> Make certain that you don't do this if you intend to lock the root account

So if I have a peep at the /etc/sudoers file, the line that starts with Defaults, has what appear to be a tabbed space after the "Defaults" word and then what I suspect are "comma seperated values", so where should I put the rootpw "bit" ?

Plus I don't follow what they mean by the <!> comment of "intend to lock the root account". What do they mean by that ?



fatbloke (confused)

[JoeTheHoe]

Re: &quot;switchin off&quot; sudo completely

Well incase you just want to log into root heres how to do it:

In /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc (nano /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc)

edit

# Allow root logins?
# Default is true
AllowRootLogin=false

Switch it to true
If you havent set the root password just:

sudo passwd root

[Lil_Eagle]

Re: &quot;switchin off&quot; sudo completely

So if I have a peep at the /etc/sudoers file, the line that starts with Defaults, has what appear to be a tabbed space after the "Defaults" word and then what I suspect are "comma seperated values", so where should I put the rootpw "bit" ?

Plus I don't follow what they mean by the <!> comment of "intend to lock the root account". What do they mean by that ?

What they mean is that if you change the sudoers file so that sudo wants the root password instead of the user password, then don't disable the root account or you'll never be able to do sudo commands, or any other administrative tasks because there is no root.

BTW, use visudo to edit the sudoers file. That way it checks the validity of the file before it saves (actually it calls nano to do the editing which saves to a temp file).

If you want your system to use the root password, make you default look like this:

# Defaults

Defaults	!lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn,rootpw

Remember, the man command lists the functions of all commands and there is a man page for sudoers.