Using sudo to Keep Admins Honest? sudon't!

Shawn McMahon smcmahon at eiv.com
Mon Nov 6 01:05:51 GMT 2006


On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:28:36AM +1100, Alexander Jacob Tsykin said:
> The point was that you log into you ":administrator account" to use sudo, and 
> your other account for all other tasks.

Except people won't do that.  The point to locking root and encourating
sudo isn't to make things more secure for the people ready, willing, and
able to make things more secure for themselves; it's for the people who
don't understand what's what to be encouraged from day one to do
something better than the easiest thing.


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