[GRLUG] Distro's - was GRLUG test comment

[Tim Schmidt]

On 5/4/06, Ron Lauzon <rlauzon at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only security check that sudo does is prove that I am me.  In my
> professional opinion, that is not a sufficient security check to run any
> command as root.

Incorrect.

Root is the only one with permissions to edit the sudoers file.  You
MUST be in that file to do anything with sudo.  Therefore, proving you
are you is sufficient to do things as root because root has said that
is OK (by putting your name in the sudoers file).

--tim