Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:20:36 +0200 From: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: "Victor Engmark" <victor.engmark@gmail.com> Cc: faqfreebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Should sudo be used? Message-ID: <e572718c0704050220l4dfddefekb2d3d6244469a332@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d4f41f50704050211t54bcfdbr4765a45a25c909a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d4f41f50704050142v9c73a17tb1812f218ea4416@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860704050147r7b7daef2k432bb20a27ae8098@mail.gmail.com> <e572718c0704050151h5f4a1b5el3359b21936d78b4a@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860704050154j7d0cfed5n631611f4afe32006@mail.gmail.com> <e572718c0704050157x4d013a43k2c2324ac32e7afa5@mail.gmail.com> <7d4f41f50704050211t54bcfdbr4765a45a25c909a1@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/5/07, Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, the standard argument is that with sudo you don't have to worry about > executing something as root which you intended to execute as a normal user. > That's good enough for me, but are there any disadvantages except just > having another package & config file? None that I know about >Is sudo slow or incompatible with certain commands? None that I know about > Does it have a bad security track record? http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/alerts/ > Is it still maintained, and will it be maintained in the foreseeable future? Yes, it's still maintained, but as you can see from the CVS logs, not actively developed. I can't tell you if it's because sudo's pretty "done", or because simply nobody's improving it. > Does it conflict with other packages? Etc.. $ grep CONFLICTS /usr/ports/security/sudo/Makefile Exit 1 Apparently not.. > Thanks for your answers! It seems this is not quite as resolved for FreeBSD > as for Ubuntu et al.. Hope this helps.. > -- > Victor "non desperandum" Engmark > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds > profound > -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org
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