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List:       ubuntu-users
Subject:    Firewall
From:       lee_b () digitalunleashed ! com (Lee Braiden)
Date:       2005-11-03 10:08:30
Message-ID: 200511031008.31115.lee_b () digitalunleashed ! com
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On Thursday 03 November 2005 02:41, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
> You can make the password prompt go away by typing sudo visudo and
> setting the NOPASSWD bit:
>
> # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
> %admin  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

I wouldn't advise that.  Might as well forget your firewall if you're using an 
account to access random websites that can easily gain root privileges.  Your 
webbrowser executes code from the net under your account, but a missing 
firewall is NOT a security risk on its own, it's only a secondary line of 
defense.  Either way, your firewall will let ANY web traffic through, unless 
you configure it to use a filtering proxy.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com



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