Re: sudo without password

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 00:16, Michael T. Richter wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-06 at 10:41 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
Note that doing this is a very bad idea from a security standpoint....

And none of this makes the slightest difference to the well-being of the
single most important stuff on your computer: Your own files.



So.............. a 'very bad idea from a security standpoint'... hardly.

This is a point that seems to be missed in the UNIX community a lot: the
vast majority of computer users no longer run on time-shared, multi-user
systems. "Security" is "me and my files" not "my system because if it
goes down hundreds of others are inconvenienced".

It's a different world. UNIX will catch up sometime.


If I screw up and make my data available to someone, that hurts me.

If I screw up and compromise my machine and give it over to some
spammer/phisher/[insert favorite net crime here], then I've hurt the entire
internet.

It's a different world. UNIX was designed for it.

Scott K

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