Using sudo to Keep Admins Honest? sudon't!
Pete Ryland
pdr at pdr.cx
Mon Nov 6 00:14:48 GMT 2006
On 04/11/06, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. one less password to remember
> 2. easy revoking of root privs without changing passwords
3. Fine-grained control of what users can run what commands as root
4. Access is logged, so you can see who has done what (grep sudo
/var/log/auth.log)
These two are very useful for groups of sysadmins at least, but I
admit not really needed for a home desktop system.
Pete
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