Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:24:34 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net> To: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sudo (was Re: Kerberos vs SSH) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903251822530.23152-100000@kasie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <199903252320.SAA07455@eagle.aitken.com>
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Jeff Aitken wrote:
> I'm not saying it is useless, but I do wonder about the practical
> benefits of the sudo/super approach. Are you using it to provide
> additional security or are you just trying to prevent accidental
> mistakes as root?
Since I usually run as myself, I frequently type 'sudo !!' under bash or
csh/tcsh as a kind of 'Simon says' when it tells me I'm not root... 8{)
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