Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:58:50 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should sudo be used? Message-ID: <4616C29A.4040706@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20070405191526.GA94631@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <7d4f41f50704050142v9c73a17tb1812f218ea4416@mail.gmail.com> <4615030B.5040809@daleco.biz> <Pine.NEB.4.64.0704051115400.18840@glacier.reedmedia.net> <20070405191526.GA94631@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:28:34AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >> >>> I thought I might also mention a potential "sudo"-shortcoming. :-D >>> >>> See: >>> http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html >>> >>> Where I wrote about a "quoting problem" that occasionally confuses >>> newbs like me. > > Finally got around to reading the wiki page. It is good. > I noticed one grammatical thing of question. In the first paragraph > under "Use ssh instead of Telnet or rsh/rlogin" it says > > "they should never be used to administrate a machine over a network," > > I think the word should be 'administer' instead of 'administrate' > unless this is some sort of British thing. I know, picky picky, but > it just stood out to me as I was reading. I'll look into that. I churned out a lot of text, so if that's all you saw, Jeremy must have had his lucky shirt on. ;-) Also, ;-) nothing would prevent you from signing up and making such a change yourself. I'm sure the book could benefit from your wisdom. > Also, although telnet is a hole nowdays for logging in to a system with > an id and password for the very reasons you have given, it still has > a use. You can use it to easily poke at a port and check the response > to see if something is up and working. Of course, in that case you > would probably not be sending an id and password, just some common > handshaking strings that don't reveal any secrets to anyone. > This is really a different issue from what was the OP or the intent > of the wiki article, of course. Right; the intent, as I see it, is to pound through people's (potential new *BSD system admins) heads the fact that you don't use telnet for remote logins/remote shell work. KDK -- Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.
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