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Milhouse	2007-09-06 , 18:29
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Originally Posted by free

Do you do this because you want to sudo to root after sshing from user?

No, it's because I'm lazy and can't be bothered to remove the password on the root account.

Originally Posted by free

I realized that sudo gain root prompts for a password, it's a sudo configuration lockdown I guess?

"sudo gainroot" doesn't prompt for the root password, and will continue to work even if the password has been removed from the root account.