Re: What is the point of sudo?
On Sunday 28 August 2005 18:06, Ian wrote:
> I know it provides a fake root environment for work, but why would you want
> that?
You have misunderstood sudo, the root environment is real, not fake.
Sudo allows certain users to issue root commands without having to know the
root password (they need to be authorised in /etc/sudoers and they need to
provide their own password). /etc/sudoers also controls which commands they
can issue (or all).
In addition everything done using sudo gets logged, so you can see who did
what and when. If you have multiple people doing system administration and
they have to become root to do it (i.e. either log on as root or use su) then
you do not know who did a particular action as root did them all, with sudo
you know who the culprit is.
David
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