Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Res]

youve contradicted yourself
unless you assume users login *only* as root which is dumb, but its no 
worse then having already sudo'd . in fact by default su or root login to 
do whatever then logging out is safer, yes i ve said it all before.
oh i will ignore the usual debian weenors who get on their boxes with the 
debian propoganda about sudo, i bet you lamers have a nightly prayer than 
goes like:

dear <inser your god>
thank for the food we are about to eat
thank for the sudo we have wet dreams over
...



look people, just ignore the people who want to force THEIR preferences 
and propoganda down your throat, use what you think is best.
personnally, I:

sudo passwd root
<give root a password>

then su/login whenever you want
amd never use sudo again, much safer (by default)

But I do agree with the weenors when it comes to not allowing remote root, 
unless its a very secure lan.

all flames sent to /dev/null


On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Chris G wrote:
>
>>> In the typical home environment a computer has only one user.
>>
>>     Two if you have root enabled.  Unless you're going to set both passwords
>> to the same in which case you might as well use sudo.
>>
>>     Don't get me wrong, I agree with you.  I don't think in an environment
>> where a single user will be using root there's a need for sudo.  But honestly,
>> in Ubuntu that is easy enough for you to fix.
>
> I thought part of the good thing with sudo is that programs can't try
> doing admin-level fubaring without prompting you. With root things do
> what they want when they want and never prompt because the privileges
> are already there.
>
> So...running something with a trojan embedded to write to a system area
> would fail or pull up a prompt before it could successfully do something.
>
>

-- 
Res

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