From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 08:54:17 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 4029316A401 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:54:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF84013C46A for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:54:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r28so269847nza for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:54:16 -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:references; b=bsZb2rWegzI/u0iTBwmVG5kFk/Go0u8pjYTC7R5zBOIuij0Hn0Iknfe3Vtytlia6REwB9UYGerBxu2jctY6D+VQwzU7YACs86hbuCnb4YwG9vYRJWVWeDEvw5n5Kv9jHGXjvr3Fmn1fOjtBQ9QgPNeoEVJGuVC9v6hSAOMZVKqc= 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:references; b=IKot6DIA8w7sK1UQmZRJ0NM39C6XbU3M+YpXFUqG3WkNm7ZHG42PMkga4GnxEtpLw9J5WrJC7pNHB91+5WzAHv0c2V8IIdGyfxTqGYJJvL1ie0LkDkvVz1mzGCOQps7b7fewPZyRkXpXbUmH9nrmIwQNkY7nBQJeyTffVfN34EQ= Received: by 10.114.209.1 with SMTP id h1mr617099wag.1175763255944; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.52.13 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 01:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8d23ec860704050154j7d0cfed5n631611f4afe32006@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 04:54:15 -0400 From: Schiz0 To: "Pietro Cerutti" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7d4f41f50704050142v9c73a17tb1812f218ea4416@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860704050147r7b7daef2k432bb20a27ae8098@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, victor.engmark@gmail.com 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 08:54:17 -0000 True, if that was the case I'd use sudo. But I'm the only user on my systems that I'd trust with root access, so there's no point with my setup. On 4/5/07, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > 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 >