From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 8: 7: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9B737B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF8843E3B for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:06:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:53 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 94B6ABB2C; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Tom Limoncelli , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su to root Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:06:46 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18703BC5BBE@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> <3D35BFB9.FFEAFF17@lumeta.com> In-Reply-To: <3D35BFB9.FFEAFF17@lumeta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020718150646.94B6ABB2C@this.is.fake.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG IMHO, "op" is far superior to "sudo." On Wednesday 17 July 2002 03:04 pm, Tom Limoncelli wrote: | "Balaji, Pavan" wrote: | > I wonder what exactly this means. I don't remember seeing any option for | > creating/not-creating the wheel group while installation. | | It means "Install 'sudo' so that you get tighter control over who can do | what, and much better logging." | | :-) | | I've known about sudo for ages but only started using it. After learning | the configuration syntax, I've found it a great little utility. There are | now many cases where I used to hand out root access but now I only have to | give sudo access to a particular command. (Disclaimer: you shouldn't give | sudo access to any command that you haven't personally audited or you may | be giving the person full root access without knowing it.) | | --tal -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message