Am 28.03.2012 19:26, schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote:
>> On 03/28/2012 08:29 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>
>>> on a usual desktop PC with a standard-user it is a VERY bad
>>> idea because any attacker only needs to try "sudo anything"
>>> to get full control over the machine
>>
>>
>> My thoughts exactly.  Except under very unusual circumstances I'm the only
>> person who ever uses this PC, but I don't have sudo set up with nopassword.
>>  In fact, as I know the root password (being the person who installed
>> Fedora) I don't have sudo set up at all.  AIUI, sudo was written to allow
>> people *who don't have the root password* limited access to administrative
>> commands.
>>
>> Yes, I understand that there are times you have to use sudo instead of su in
>> a production environment to ensure that everything gets logged, but I've
>> never understood why anybody would do it at home.  YMMV and all that jazz,
>> but if this is a home box, I'd suggest asking yourself why you're bothering
>> with sudo in the first place.
> 
> In my case, it's because `sudo yum update` requires 3 less keystrokes
> `su -c 'yum update'`.  ;-)
> 
> I generally only need root for one-off commands and IMHO sudo's syntax
> for that is far nicer than su's.

what about a simple shell-script "/usr/local/bin/sudo" as wrapper?

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