On a server I have a public key auth only for root account. Is there any point of logging in with a different account?

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      1 year ago

      Nah just set up PAM to use TOTP or a third party MFA service to send a push to your phone for sudo privs.

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      1 year ago

      And what do you suggest to use otherwise to maintain a server? I am not aware of a solution that would help here? As an attacker you could easily alias any command or even start a modified shell that logs ever keystroke and simulates the default bash/zsh or whatever.

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          1 year ago

          And how would you not be able to hijack the password when you have control over the user session?

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              1 year ago

              With aliases in the bashrc you can hijack any command and execute instead of the command any arbitrary commands. So the command can be extracted, as already stated above, this is not a weakness of sudo but a general one.