From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jul 12 22:44:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA10448 for security-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA10435 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 22:44:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA08901; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 01:43:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 01:43:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Alan Batie cc: Peter Howlett , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sudo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Alan Batie wrote: > > The reason I call it indispensable is because I use it all the time. > I get dozens of 5-second root-only requests/interrupts/things-that- > need-done a day, and the other option is having a root window open all > the time, and even that's not as convenient. This is pretty much the situation here. We have a few customers who have co-located servers on our LAN, and our policy is that only we have root access. Unfortunately, I get a ton of little things that only take a few minutes to do, if I could only get around to doing them. ;-) -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"