Hi Scott, On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:04 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Worse, and *very* common with, um, "users" of > a "popular" derivative of Debian is "%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" which > requires no password for sudo(sigh).
Ubuntu definitively made some steps into a wrong direction, but AFAIK all *buntus require the user's password after sudo for default installs. > "su -c" isn't too difficult for many, and if the extra keystrokes are a > problem:- > $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bash rc > then you can use "s" instead of "sudo" (or alias sudo='su -c"') if you > don't have sudo installed. su -c becomes inconvenient if an option of a command needs quotation marks, the alias isn't helpful then. su -c "command --option "that needs quotation marks"" Sure, it's not hard to correct this line, so that it will work, but it's not that handy as sudo command --option "that needs quotation marks" OTHO regarding to the amount of keystrokes su - command_1 command_n is more pleasant than sudo -i command_1 command_n > The price of convenience is often security. There was a discussion about su vs sudo a while ago. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1382617152.670.12.camel@archlinux
