Re: Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo
- From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:06:21 +1300
Steve Lamb wrote:
Chris G wrote:Agreed - does seem that (sorry Chris) you have missed the whole point of
OK, it's not a disaster and there are several ways around the issue, I
could give my wife's account sudo privileges or I could use apt-get from
the command line (having changed user to me). However none of them is
particularly covenient and it's a pain if I want to install something
to fix an immediate 'on screen' problem.
None of them is convenient? Copying one freaking line in sudoers and
changing the username is beyond the pale!? Cripes, man, get real!
sudo - certain *users* have 'admin' rights on the machine, and certain
do not. If you are logged in as a user w/o such you have to either log
in again or give that user admin rights... pretty easy stuff either way.
The issue with 'real' root is that you will have to pass around
*another* password - that in most cases will get written down - as non
geek computer users will typically struggle to remember an additional
one. This will tend to *decrease* your overall security.
regards
Mark
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