From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Mar 13 17:19:06 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3CED0A1A0 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:19:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from mx0.gentlemail.de (mx0.gentlemail.de [IPv6:2a00:e10:2800::a130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEDC7133D for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:19:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from mh0.gentlemail.de (ezra.dcm1.omnilan.net [78.138.80.135]) by mx0.gentlemail.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id v2DHJ38c053520; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:19:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@omnilan.de) Received: from titan.inop.mo1.omnilan.net (titan.inop.mo1.omnilan.net [IPv6:2001:a60:f0bb:1::3:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mh0.gentlemail.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4362F77F; Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:19:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <58C6D486.1030107@omnilan.de> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:19:02 +0100 From: Harry Schmalzbauer Organization: OmniLAN User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-DE; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100906 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marko Turk CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sudo alternatives; for the minimalists References: <58C6BDC0.7070307@omnilan.de> <20170313154902.GB13142@vps.markoturk.info> In-Reply-To: <20170313154902.GB13142@vps.markoturk.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: ACL 119 matched, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mx0.gentlemail.de [78.138.80.130]); Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:19:04 +0100 (CET) X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: mx0.gentlemail.de; Sender-ip: 78.138.80.135; Sender-helo: mh0.gentlemail.de; ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:19:06 -0000 Bezüglich Marko Turk's Nachricht vom 13.03.2017 16:49 (localtime): > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:41:52PM +0100, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >> after more than two decades of daily FreeBSD usage, I'm still astonished >> that almost everybody else seems to use 'sudo'. >> I don't use it because I don't agree with the idea to authorize with the >> user password which I already used for current credentials. > > Hi, > > what about rootpw option in sudo? > > rootpw If set, sudo will prompt for the root password instead > of the password of the invoking user when running a > command or editing a file. This flag is off by > default. > Thanks, seems I should have a brief (at least) look into 'sudo' before demonizing it for another 20 years ;-) But I'm interestend in all kind of experiences anyway! -harry