Mail Lists wrote: >> > > Not arguing against the concerns - there is a difference between having > a user account with priveleges and a user account that can elevate to > get priveleges via sudo. > > Even with NOPASSWD he still needs to run sudo does he not ? Not sure > how you accidently run sudo /bin/rm -rf / > > gene > I have removed the NOPASSWD. I cannot recall any dumb mistakes as root (any I could imagine that could ever occur would be easily repaired by reinstalling the system, costing only a lot of time), but recently I made one as me: I deleted a huge sub- directory of Documents, containing a lot of important files, and didn't realize that I had even done it until after I had run a backup program (I don't know how, but I might have typed an erroneous command and hit the enter key instead of the shift key, then didn't realize that something had occurred and just retyped the command). Fortunately, I do incremental backups, so I was able to restore. What made the whole fiasco even weirder was that I then found the accidentally deleted directory in Trash, a few days later. Duh... Sudo did not protect me from this. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
