On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 12:53 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Joe Zeff wrote:
> 
> > I, OTOH, find su -c quite satisfactory, TYVM.
> 
> Surely this takes substantially more time than sudo?
> Presumably you have to give the argument in quotes,
> and then give the password?

My thinking exactly.

> And doesn't it give an alternative way for the hacker
> to get the superuser password, eg by key-logging?
> So is it even safer in the end?

If there's a keylogger, all bets are off anyway, so I wouldn't give
much weight to this as an argument.

poc
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