From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 08:51:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5934916A403 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1633713C484 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so586881ana for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:51:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OFBpLRZ2NY8FhIHvZ791TZUH3E6iMY1i6vyKW9PhLy1MeVhmbqzkmwFhof77e/0oAChSDUedwVavomsbZ6+DxTpe6ualObOC60DqtP65/woJbZ6mSbn3595o/9icu0fJYOkeLFHnktSA1QCWEnXaaMBIvoR/zyC7zUBcO348kMg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nA+qq/eTxEtSVK9xiDxOJkT4jiXiAZkw68l2FSJQDrS9SNvL/+OLcpvZutajeSBX0gKXhsC2VWyF8OuxDpY0BiaxIIBjKbVpvshsbw4eRTY3e+EzFnrXm23OXE3Yrro7KAuSxtsH2fWQDLhkw31iN1EdxVe9dtltpUrBDlz2g04= Received: by 10.100.152.9 with SMTP id z9mr1134265and.1175763066545; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.33.5 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 01:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:51:06 +0200 From: "Pietro Cerutti" To: Schiz0 In-Reply-To: <8d23ec860704050147r7b7daef2k432bb20a27ae8098@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d4f41f50704050142v9c73a17tb1812f218ea4416@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860704050147r7b7daef2k432bb20a27ae8098@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Victor Engmark Subject: Re: Should sudo be used? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:51:07 -0000 On 4/5/07, Schiz0 wrote: > I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something as > root, I use su to gain root privileges, then when I'm done, I exit and > return to the original user. The user running su must be in the group > "wheel" to be able to su to root. This is a simple yet convenient security > system. What when you have several people with different privileges wanting to do stuff that normally only root can? Would you give your root password to everyone, or rather install sudo and define exactly what a user can do? -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org