Old style security models (was: Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo)

Paul Sladen ubuntu at paul.sladen.org
Mon Feb 2 20:12:58 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:24:22PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:32 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > "passwd -l root"
> Yes, it's easy enough to do ... but it does break a couple of
> things. ... - it's difficult.

Twenty years ago everyone used cheques for money transfer.

You can still [technically] use cheques, but ... - it's difficult.

	-Paul

(We'll have ignore the United States in this example).
-- 
Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three.  Somewhere, GB.





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