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Re:Linux workstation security checklist by Alupis on Friday August 28, 2015 @04:27PM (#10137671)
> If you have unrestricted sudo [...] your password is effectively the root password.

Yes, but it keeps an audit trail of who's account was compromised, etc.

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Re:Linux workstation security checklist by rsy96 on Saturday August 29, 2015 @07:54AM (#10139723)
With root privilege you can erase all of the audit logs. A malicious attack probably would do so if he/she cares about that.
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Re:Linux workstation security checklist by fluidcruft on Saturday August 29, 2015 @01:10PM (#10140659)
You can't erase remote logs, or logs written to a write-only logging device (the one's I've seen seem essentially to be a serial port/usb device that emulates a line printer).
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