sudo without password

[Michael T. Richter]

On Wed, 2006-07-06 at 10:41 +0700, Chanchao wrote:

> > Note that doing this is a very bad idea from a security standpoint....



> And none of this makes the slightest difference to the well-being of the
> single most important stuff on your computer: Your own files. 



> So.............. a 'very bad idea from a security standpoint'... hardly.


This is a point that seems to be missed in the UNIX community a lot: the
vast majority of computer users no longer run on time-shared, multi-user
systems.  "Security" is "me and my files" not "my system because if it
goes down hundreds of others are inconvenienced".

It's a different world.  UNIX will catch up sometime.

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