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Re: SUDO



Am 2007-12-03 12:26:04, schrieb Michael Pobega:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:10:44AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > 2. There's the (very) slight psychological reminder that you're potentially 
> > doing dangerous things when you have to take the extra step of typing 
> > "sudo" before a command.
> 
> I suppose that may be true, but personally I see the # instead of the >,
> and I don't have any colouring setup on my root's terminal to remind me
> that I'm logged in as root.

Right, I do this too...  coloring PS1 can give you problems if
you need to do trouble shooting and the screen is screwing up...

Using b/w terminal is warning enough.

...and if I open a XTerm with su-too-root, then I have configured
it to be RED (!!!) so if I forget to close an iconifies XTerm,
the Icon is RED too.

> > 3. "sudo" automagically handles X permissions, whereas "su" does not.
> Does it really? I always thought it didn't and that's why we have
> gksu/gksudo, but I could be wrong.

"gksu" is no crap, since it requires a bunch (38 MByte) of GNOME
libs where I do not use any GNOME/KDE bloatware...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Open Hardware Developer
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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