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On Monday 31 January 2005 17:10, David Kramer wrote: > ... All of which could have been handled by sudo. With sudo, you can > give mortals the power to run certain commands as root without the root > password. Best of both worlds. I know JABR is big on sudo. I am also. With sudo, the sysadmin can give a user specific privs. For instance, I gave Rick Zach privilege to shutdown the system, so I didn't need to drive to Marlborough. > Since I am both Sysadmin and Power User at home, what I do is I have a > separate login window on a separate vitrual window for root, and it has a > red tinted background. I consider this acceptable risk because I do > regular backups, though. I generally don't do that because I can always use sudo. I used to do that on my workstation in Nashua, but one day I did someting wrong. I decided that I would use the sux (no sudo then) command when I needed to be root. But, it comes down to whether the system admin people should extend some privileges to the user of the workstation. -- Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com> Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243
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