Thread: Feel unhappy about "sudo gainroot" not asking for root password?
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2010-09-13 , 18:34
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start xterm
become root (if you don't know how, then all this doesn't apply to you anyway)
make sure you have proper root password set!
run command:
Code:
sed -e "s/Defaults env_reset/Defaults env_reset\nDefaults targetpw/; \
 s+user ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/gainroot+user ALL = PASSWD: \ /usr/sbin/gainroot+" -i  /etc/sudoers.d/01sudo

run update-sudoers, check there's no warnings or errors

if sudo gainroot still doesn't ask for password, it might be cached from previous entering it: sudo -k clears pw cache

Tested for PR1.2 with default rootsh installed, works for me. If you bork everything, a reinstall of rootsh package should get you out of quicksand

THIS IS ABOUT *ROOT* PASSWORD for root account, not about that silly Ubuntu idiocy to ask for user password to do root things

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