Why do all the sudo? [was Re: Software updater no longer functional]

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 02:40:45PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 27 January 2017 at 14:15, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > Liam, if you want to throw professional qualifications about:-
> >
> >     Eur Ing  CA Green  CEng MBCS CITP  BSc(Eng)  FIAP
> >
> > I've been using, adminstering, programming moatly on Unix and Linux
> > since the 1970s.  I'm not just spouting rubbish I don't think.
> >
> > I too offer help here (and lots of other places).  My original comment
> > wasn't an absolute "do it this way", it was just a comment.
> >
> > I don't quite understand why the subsequent discussion got so heated! :-)
> 
> 
> Good for you. I started in 1988 myself.
> 
> So if you consider that the ``su'' command was in UNIX First Edition (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_(Unix) ) in 1971 (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix ), but ``sudo'' has been
> around since 1980 ( https://www.sudo.ws/history.html )...
> 
> If it's that old, it must have filled a need.
> 
So do lots of other commands, there is more than one way to skin a
cat.  There are different ways to do things in Unix/Linux.

You might, by the same logic, ask why there is a 'sudo -i'?

As I said I wasn't suggesting that mine was the 'right' way, there
isn't a right way.  I was just pointing out that one doesn't *have* to
type in all those sudo prefixes and that in some cases, IMHO, it
doesn't really help.

-- 
Chris Green