Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: being root Message-ID: <199803231821.KAA10919@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:05:02 -0600 (CST) >From: BJ Bell <brian@centrisys.com> > First of all, I never login as root I always su root... Even better: * Don't use "su", use "sudo". (And track what gets done as root and by whom, as well as when.) * When you do change a file that you might care about, use RCS to track the changes. Neat thing here is that even if you use "su" or "sudo", RCS can track by your login ID... and you can use RCS tools to review histories of changes. Examples of files that are good for this -- just about anything in /etc; also a custom kernel config file (in /sys/i386/conf). (My bias as a sysadmin may be showing, here....:-) Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 401-0168 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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