Re: What's so secure about sudo?

2019-06-17 Thread Omer Zak
Using /etc/sudoers and /etc/sudoers.d, it is possible to limit the operations that an user can do as a superuser. It is even possible to configure some operations as ones not requiring him to enter his password. See 'man 5 sudoers'. On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 09:23 +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Th

What's so secure about sudo?

2019-06-17 Thread Shlomo Solomon
This has bothered me for years and I decided to "get it off my chest". For many years I used su to do administrative tasks, but "everyone" uses sudo and the claim is that it's more secure than actually logging in as root. In principal, of course, root login is not a good thing, but let's remembe