[NBLUG/talk] Root and SSH questions..

Jeremy Turner jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Thu Sep 18 14:31:03 PDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:30, Steve Johnson wrote:
> E Frank Ball wrote:
> > If the user only logs in remotely, then you can replace his password in
> > the /etc/passwd file with !!.
> Eric posted how to do it via SSH, the !! way would break su, which I use 
> to become root to do maint on the box at times.

I wonder if '!!' would break sudo.  I've been a good little sysadmin and
gotten to the point where I do that instead of su -.

Jeremy
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