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echo: rberrypi
to: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
from: MARTIN GREGORIE
date: 2019-02-07 19:58:00
subject: Re: Recover password

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 14:38:33 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> The RPi is a bit lax in that it also doesn't require the user password
> in order to access sudo (BeagleBone configuration requires knowing the
> user password -- which prevents passers-by from doing stuff to an
> unlocked SSH session )
>
Mine was like that when I first bought it, but upgrading to either jessie
or stretch fixed sudo so it requires a password like all sensible Unices.
I forget which one it was that introduced the change.

How come your RPi still doesn't require a password for sudo?


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