SU & SUDO

[Dave]

You all brought up great points! The main reason I want "su" vs. "sudo" is
for security. Admittedly, I do not have a deep understanding of how sudo
works but I came from a FreeBSD environment and have only just started using
Ubuntu recently. While a lot of things are different to me, I do not
understand the need to give applications in x, access to sudo. I feel that
if I want to run a series of tools that require extra privileges, it is
simple enough to su to root and be done with it. I would however, love to
hear how the security of sudo is coming along, perhaps my concerns seem
silly to you guys.

Thanks again for all your replies :-)
~keep on hackin

On 10/6/06, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>
> Dave <dsterken at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I would like to be able to disable the SUDO command and enable SU but
> > I can't find the conf files for it, would someone be so kind as to
> > point me in the right direction?
>
> Enable use of su(1) is reasonable, but Ubuntu may not work as well as
> you would hope if you disable sudo(8) -- not least of which because it
> is used internally to obtain root access with a number of the GUI
> administrative tools.
>
> To enable su(1) to work simply set a password for your root user.  You
> can then use that password to log in as root no matter what mechanism,
> including su.
>
>
> Now, the real question here is *why* you want to do this?  Obviously you
> have some reason for wanting to replace sudo with su, and if you share
> it with us there may turn out to be a better way to address your
> problem.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
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