Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Res]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Chris G wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:46:03PM +1000, Res wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>>
>>
>>> backups and beer... Once an intruder has local access, all bets are off.
>>
>> True, but its still a far safer bet than using sudo on a general publicly
>> accesible box. There exists risks in everything, the threat level
>> depends on how much you want to help the norti lil kiddies by making it
>> X much easier, or harder, for them.
>>
> Yes, it's not black/white or right/wrong, as far as I'm concerned
> that's what this whole thread is about.  It's nearly all useful
> discussion and stuff that I will try and remember so that I can make a
> rational decision between the default Ubuntu 'use sudo' and the
> alternative of making it possible to log in as root.
>
>
> Maybe I am sometimes a little more outspoken on the side of having a
> root login than I should be, if so I apologise, but it has provoked
> lots of (mostly) useful discussion.

You can never be too outspoken on something, I'm all for controlled root 
logins and dead set against sudo, but as you've seen sudo also has its 
fanbs, for reasons I mentioned in my example a few posts back I'll never 
ever use sudo, nor permit it on any box controlled by me or my staff.
Incidently all of them are also against sudo, most of them are RedHat'rs
some like me Slackware'rs, and funny enough even our lone debian fanboi is 
against it :)


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Res

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