<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Chris G <<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:16:21PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Knapp <<a href="mailto:magick.crow@gmail.com">magick.crow@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > I just accepted the DEV GOD's when they said sudo was better than su but I > > never understood why that was so. > > Here's some reasons that stand out to me. > > - if more than one person has root access (more common in business > than home) each person in effect has their own root password - when > one person leaves the company you don't have to do anything more than > lock him out. > > - you can be more specific with sudo - e.g. let this guy over here do > backups but not add printers, or that guy do backups but not play with > the webserver, etc. etc. etc. > But how many Ubuntu systems actually have more than one user? Very few I suspect. Sudo makes some sense in a *really* multiuser environment but for a single user I don't think it does. > - Everything done via sudo is logged in /var/log - so you KNOW what > they did, and who did it. > If of course each user has their own account - which you've blown out > of the water in your house. > As is everything done by root and since I'm the only user it must be me anyway! :-) </blockquote><div> Ya, the day I have to look in the sudo log to find out what my wife or 8 year old daughter are doing to the computer is the day that they get to start doing the computer maintenance too! Alas, a day that will never come for my wife but maybe there is hope for the 8 year old. :-) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Chris Green -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Douglas E Knapp Amazon Gift Cards; let them choose!! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001078FFE?ie=UTF8&tag=seattlebujinkand&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001078FFE">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001078FFE?ie=UTF8&tag=seattlebujinkand&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001078FFE</a>