From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 25 16:29:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from host07.rwsystems.net (kasie.rwsystems.net [209.197.192.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F2B15346 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:29:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@RWSystems.net) Received: from kasie.rwsystems.net([209.197.192.103]) (1150 bytes) by host07.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:24:45 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-24) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:24:34 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: Jeff Aitken Cc: Garance A Drosihn , dillon@apollo.backplane.com, bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sudo (was Re: Kerberos vs SSH) In-Reply-To: <199903252320.SAA07455@eagle.aitken.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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{) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message