cross-platform virus

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 15:29, Sasha Tsykin wrote:

> Which is all very well and good, but if you are running a number of
> commands which all require root access, then it is a major pain to
> preface each command with sudo. This just acts as another argument
> to scrap sudo for su as the default. I don't particularly like
> having to type sudo all the time, Every time I forget it is an
> annoyance when ti tells me I don't have the privileges to perform
> the task I wanted to.

That's fine if it's your personal box that only you ever use, but see 
Shawn's earlier reply for the real reasons sudo is better.

When you are one of several admins on a machine, su is inadequate and 
doesn't scale well. At that point you need to take a leaf from the 
kernel developer's book: "Yes, sudo is more inconvenient for you. No, 
we don't care."   :-)

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Alan McKinnon
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