On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:17:30 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 10/26/22 2:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > So they have root access, nothing has changed. How they get root > > access is irrelevant, just that they have it. > > No, how they get root access is not irrelevant. > > If your only access to root is via sudo and you break sudo you no > longer have root access. > > If you don't have root access through something other than sudo, you > can't fix your sudo (from your existing system).
They and you are different people. You are looking at it from the perspective of a user accidentally locking themself out of the system, so su is the best way to be able to fix it. I agree with you there. I was looking at it from the perspective of a third party changing sudo right without your consent. We were at cross purposes. -- Neil Bothwick "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." (Albert Einstein)
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