Kent West wrote:
> I'd rather have a consistent habit across the machines.
Key words, consistent habit. The habit is the important part, not how it
is achieved. I have the same habit with su.
> Which implies that you're firing up an xterm, "su"ing and doing your
> command, then exiting out of "su" after each command, never leaving a
> terminal window running as root most of the time.
Ya got it! Except that I don't exit after every command. I exit after
every operation. Far more convenient than having to sudo every command esp.
when doing work in protected directories.
> Granted. But the original claim which I dispute was not that "other
> methods provide similar benefit to sudo"; the claim was that "sudo
> provides no benefit on a single-user machine", with which I disagree.
Fine for you to disagree. Not that you have given any examples where it
helps in the claim which is that in a single-user machine it provides no
benefit. Operative words, single-user machine.
> So, I'm confused. Are you saying that the logging capability of sudo
> provides a benefit on a single-user machine (my claim), or not (the
> original claim)?
I pointed out that sudo provides logging. You got into the semantics of
logging "Ah-HA, you said only who and what, but it also includes WHEN!" My
original point regardless of which W word attached to it is that sudo provides
logging of whom did what. In a single-user machine that is known.
Let's see.... Only I have access to root. It must've been... Kernel
Kustard in /dev/audio with gcc that changed my apache.conf file! Nope, sorry,
I know whom did it... ME. I know what I did. I was there doing it! I don't
need logging to tell me that!
> However, if one
> person, anywhere, finds sudo to be of benefit on a single-user machine,
> then the claim that there is "*NO* benefit of sudo" is simply incorrect.
> (I myself am such a person, so this is not just a hypothetical possibility.)
Just becaonse one person finds benefit doesn't mean the benefit is real,
tangible and generally applicable.
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