[olug] To Sudo or Not to Sudo, That is the Question

[Jordan Fox]

Used to run su all the time.  I switched to Ubuntu and pretty much hosed my
system trying to enable su - I'd just switched and thought having to type
sudo before every command was dumb.  A man page or google later...  sudo
-i     ;)

Jordan

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > I use sudo all the time.  At home, it saves me from accidentally blowing
> > something away.   At work, it's a security measure.   I ask my users to
> use
> > it, so I need to lead by example.
> >
> > Dave Thacker
> >
>
> I did some more thinking about our model here at work.  Generally, I'm the
> only person who would ever need root access, and generally nothing 'service
> level' (our daemons and client code and data) need root access.  So, I tend
> to quickly su to root, do whever, and exit back to user level permissions.
>
> I imagine sudo might make security audits easier... but... it's not
> applicable for us as a company -- and for regular desktop / home usage -
> the
> standard 'do only system shit as root' still applies... meaning a root
> prompt is rare.
>
> -Will
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