Assigning ROOT a password

[Michael Leone]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

>  >>  I administer a CentOS system that has a root account.  I don't know the
>  >>  root password; since I've never had physical access to the system, I
>  >>  probably couldn't ssh in as root anyway; and I've never had any trouble
>  >>  administering it via sudo.
>  >
>  > Others do things differently. BTW, were you an employee of the company
>  > who owned the CentOS system? Some places I know won't give the
>  > password to consultants (preferring to use sudo, as you do - hey, that
>  > rhymes! :-)),
>
>  It does?  I always assumed - despite the fact that the "do" in sudo probably
>  really is "do", that sudo rhymes with pseudo (as in "pseudo-root" access).

I've always heard it as "do" - as " su [sue] do", or "(s)witch (u)ser
- do" the command.

>  > but will give it to the head administrator who is an employee.
>
>  That's approximately the situation I'm in.  I'm associated with the
>  non-profit that actually owns the machine, but it's installed in a
>  university computer room and the university controls physical and root
>  access.



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