Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon

Re:Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon by wang_li on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:32PM (#20681635)

If your sudo is configured correctly it will have an administrator defined PATH. However if you have sudo price to run apt-get, anything that could manipulate your rc files can just run sudo apt-get on its own. No need to trick you.

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Re:Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon by Godel_unicode on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:09PM (#20682466)

Unless it doesn't have your password, and sudo is configured to require auth to elevate. This is the STIG requirement for this exact reason

Edit: of course, it could just manipulate the path to include it's own evil sudo wrapper, but the chess match always sounds like this.

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