Allegedly, on or about 10 June 2013, Joe Zeff sent: > To me, sudo is a fine tool if you want to give access to a few admin > tools to people who don't (and shouldn't) know the root password. > However, I can't see the point of using it if you're the person who > installed Linux and created the root password.
I can see only two reasons for using sudo when you're the sole computer user and owner: Once the command finishes, your terminal is left with your unprivileged logon, so there's less chance of serious mistakes happening by accident (e.g. badly wildcarded "rm" commands), if you're going to keep that terminal open. Potentially, there should be less chance for something to snaffle up a copy of your root password if you're not typing it. Though I suspect that if there is anything hanging around that could do that, then you're already screwed. And it's not just the potential for issuing dangerous commands in a root terminal, that's a problem. People logged in as root often stay logged in as root, doing things as root when they don't really need to. Then they find that they're painted themselves into a corner, as some files they wanted to use are owned by root, so they log back in as root, yet again, for a really bad reason. That said, I've really only recently made practical use of sudo, and can't say that *I* find it to be a stand-out better thing to do than doing "su -", I still do it either way. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
