Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Res]

what rot, more FUD

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Chris G wrote:
>>
>>> OK, it's not a disaster and there are several ways around the issue, I
>>> could give my wife's account sudo privileges or I could use apt-get from
>>> the command line (having changed user to me).  However none of them is
>>> particularly covenient and it's a pain if I want to install something
>>> to fix an immediate 'on screen' problem.
>>>
>>
>>     None of them is convenient?  Copying one freaking line in sudoers and
>> changing the username is beyond the pale!?  Cripes, man, get real!
>>
>>
> Agreed - does seem that (sorry Chris) you have missed the whole point of
> sudo  - certain *users* have 'admin'  rights on the machine, and certain
> do not. If you are logged in as a user w/o such you have to either log
> in again or give that user admin rights... pretty easy stuff either way.
>
> The issue with 'real' root is that you will have to pass around
> *another* password - that in most cases will get written down - as non
> geek computer users will typically struggle to remember an additional
> one. This will tend to *decrease* your overall security.
>
> regards
>
> Mark
>
>

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Res

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