On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:24:28PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Depends on how you use it. > > At my last job, we used sudo for two reasons: > > 1) I didn't have to inform all the admins whenever the root password > changed. which is bogus since changing the root password means changing each and every user's passwd who is listed in /etc/sudoers. > 2) techs had a script which ran as root under sudo for creating user > accounts, etc. The script was written in perl ... I'm sure there was > something wrong with it but it worked well for us and kept techs in > the box where they did the least damage. well thats different, if you write a well audited and secure script for adding users then those allowed to run that won't necessarily be root, still trusted to be sure, but not root. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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