sudo: what is the point?

Robert Parker bposs at dodo.com.au
Sat Nov 27 13:18:52 UTC 2004


On Saturday 27 November 2004 23:59, rec.sea at btopenworld.com wrote:
> > Exactly. From the man page: "sudo allows a permitted user to execute a
> > command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers
> > file."
>
> What about security? It is a potential door.

So how is that less secure than running a program as root via su?






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