On 02/10/2016 04:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Surely this takes substantially more time than sudo?
Presumably you have to give the argument in quotes,
and then give the password?


So?  Time is not everything, and being retired, I have all that I need.

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 the hacker's gotten through my firewall and installed a key logger, it's already too late.
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