Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:04:35
Message-Id: 20100301014712.5131338f@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. by Alan McKinnon
1 On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:07:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > Don't read my post as literally meaning they must type the 7 characters
4 > "sudo su". Read it more as "use any feature of sudo you feel like to
5 > get a root shell, but you must use sudo. As opposed to using su alone".
6
7 The problem with this in your situation is that you only get a log entry
8 when the user switches to root, not for whatever they do in that root
9 shell, whereas having them run each command with sudo logs every action
10 they take as root. Or do you have a way of auditing the commands run from
11 the root shell?
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14 --
15 Neil Bothwick
16
17 Press button to test: release to detonate.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>