Re: password reset using sudo

Shawn McMahon <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Feb 2020 08:51:06 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user
Message-ID <CAKDhi0RRcgt9TaKESmNWjuoCavsVc5bjDzv_nrGzoUxWGCXpfw@mail.gmail.com>
You did it, so that kind of proves it's possible.

If you have your sudo configured to allow this, it's possible to do this.


On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 8:38 AM Sama N <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I had a question about sudo. The question is "if it is possible to reset
> root account user's password using non-privileged local user's password?"
> I was able to change my root account password using sudo without even
> knowing the password to the root account. Let me know if its possible or
> not.
>
>
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