Re: Simple little basic config questions
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 20:43 GMT, Pigeon penned:
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> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:03:23AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned:
>> > I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes
>> > an extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my
>> > opinion is better than forgetting you're root and doing something
>> > you don't want to do.
>> >=20 apt-get install sudo visudo, add yourself a line similar to
>> >what's already there sudo command_to_be_run_as_root =20
>>=20 People keep talking about sudo like it's the cat's meow, and maybe
>>for a single-user system it is. But sudo documentation very
>>explicitly warns that, if you're not careful about what you allow, you
>>could accidentally allow access to far more than you expected.
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>=2E..it seems like a good idea on a single-user machine to allow sudo
>dpkg -i... sudo dpkg -i make_bash_setuid_root.deb
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I'm a bit confused ... you snipped out the part where I said that it's
probably fine for a single-user machine, then added your own comment to
that effect, and instructions for installing it ...
For the record, I have it installed. But I still think that espousing
sudo as a panacea, without encouraging people to read the documentation
and understand the potential pitfalls, is not the right thing to do.
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monique
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