Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 4 22:59:19 UTC 2009


Res wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

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