Fedora 29 remove Sudo
I would like to remove the sudo function from Fedora 29. Is there a way to get rid of this and go back to good old super user?
2 Answers
No need to remove the /usr/bin/sudo file!
Suggestion 1:
remove your user (or all users, or specific users) from the wheel group. Only users in that group can use the sudo command. Once removed, only root has superuser power.
Suggestion 2:
You can use visudo to edit the file /etc/sudoers as follow:
As root, comment (#) the line
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
-->
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
and nobody will be able to use the sudo command, even if part of wheel group.
I would strongly advice to disable sudo access only after you have created a password for user root.
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If you set a password for the root user, you could pretend that sudo is not there.
sudo passwd root
If it realy bothers you
rm /usr/bin/sudo
but don't do that unless you have a valid password for root.
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Even better, use dnf remove sudo to get rid of it properly. My laptop doesn't have it installed, and the only reason it's on my desktop is that there were some packages that wouldn't update/upgrade without it. From what I can tell, their install scripts used it for some weird reason.
Not so simple
[root@mybox ~]# dnf remove sudo
Error:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: sudo
[root@mybox ~]#
Of course you could unprotect it first.
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Asked: 2018-12-20 08:41:38 -0500
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Last updated: Dec 20 '18
Is there a good reason to remove
sudo? Why can't you just not use that command?