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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 08/09/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo |
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> >> *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running |
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> everything |
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> >> as root, right? |
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> > sudo normally logs the command executed, and the account which |
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> > executes it, so while not relevant for single user systems, it STILL |
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> > has benefits over running as root. |
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> ...excepting, of course, "sudo bash -l" which means you've given away |
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> the keys to the kingdom. |
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> I actually prefer "sudo su -" -- as long as I'm giving it away! :o) |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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