On Sat,20.Jun.09, 22:38:17, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 15.06.09 09:36, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Doing the former allows me to open new tabs as root, doing the latter > > (with 'su') requires that I provide my root password every time; using > > 'sudo' requires that I provide 'sudo command' every time. It's just a > > lot less convenient, but still doable, which is why the security > > excuse is BS. It's yet another example of sacrificing function to > > fear. > > Are you fully aware that in such case, only your password will be needed to > get full system access instead of requiring root's password?
If the account used for accessing root is compromised it is quite easy to also get the root password, so this doesn't bring any additional security. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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