100809 Robert Bridge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea >> and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. >> You might as well be running everything as root, right? > sudo normally logs the command executed and the account which executes it, > so while not relevant for single user systems, > it STILL has benefits over running as root.
I follow 2 simple rules: (1) never start X as root -- I open in a raw terminal, then 'startx', so it's ok to login there as root to get some system fixes done, but of course logout again before starting X as user -- & (2) do all system stuff in a virtual root terminal on its own desktop, where the prompt says 'root' in red letters & the background is black (my user terminal has a white background): that's down in the basement, where all the pipes & wires are & you need a hard hat & safety boots & you need to unlock the basement door, whose key is the root password. also, my user terminal says : 524: gx> which sudo which: no sudo in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin::/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin) -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
