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by J-Kuhn 7 days ago
I changed the sudo settings to not require a password.

Now an application on my computer can obtain root without user interaction.

Where is my CVE?

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Same. There are so many things you could mess up without root from my account anyway. My account isn't a locked down one. You could alias sudo to a keylogger, for instance, and then do whatever as root the next time I sudo something.

So the password check really has no point. Typing sudo is still a lightweight sanity check, otherwise I may as well just log in as root.