From owner-freebsd-security Sat Aug 7 0:28:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (ferg5200-1-19.cpinternet.com [208.149.16.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB86B14F2F for ; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 00:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA26621; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:23:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from alk) From: Anthony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:23:40 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: wes@softweyr.com Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: group bits References: <14249.52685.50332.808817@avalon.east> <37AA2E0B.ECDE4153@softweyr.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14250.25026.756025.612481@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Wes Peters on Thu, 5 August: : : sudo? Sudo is a wonderful tool, but it far too big a hammer for such a small nail for one thing (allows root access to everyone permitted to perform a limited task), doesn't retrofit integrated environments with editors for another (as e.g. Xemacs), and just evades the issue rather than addressing it for a third -- although certainly it provides a useful work around for many cases (clearly enough cases so that what I regard as the real issue is much less pressing for most folks). Rhetorical question: Does sudo make group bits obsolete? Rhetorical response: Of course not. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message