On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 04:03:32PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 20 Mar 2016, John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote: > >doug writes: > >> su allows someone with a root password (and nobody else) to make > >> system modifications, etc., which might harm the operation of the > >> system. Sudo basically allows anyone with a user password to do the > >> same thing > > > >No it doesn't. Only users who have been granted sudo privileges can > >use > >sudo and only for the commands permitted them. > > In reality, how many PC s have more than 1 user. > > If I had users other than myself, I'd think hard about a ding them to sudoers
And there are lots of good config options to make a multi-system multi-user shared sudoers file worthwhile. You can make groups of hosts, groups of users, and groups of commands, and assign them different privileges. -dsr-
