On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Albert van der Horst <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote: > I don't trust sudo because it is too complicated. > (To the point that I removed it from my machine.) > I do > su > .. > # > su nobody > > Who needs sudo?
With sudo, you get MUCH finer control. I can grant some user the power to run "sudo eject sr0", but no other commands. I can permit someone to execute any of a large number of commands, all individually logged. I can allow sudo to other users than root, without having to reveal those accounts' passwords (chances are they don't even have passwords). But sure. If you want to cut out complication, dispense with user accounts altogether and run everything as root. That's WAY simpler! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
