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Hi Scott,

On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:04 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Worse, and *very* common with, um, "users" of
> a "popular" derivative of Debian is "%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" which
> requires no password for sudo(sigh).

Ubuntu definitively made some steps into a wrong direction, but AFAIK
all *buntus require the user's password after sudo for default installs.

> "su -c" isn't too difficult for many, and if the extra keystrokes are a
> problem:-
> $ echo "alias s='su -c"'" >> ~/.bash_aliases;. .bash rc
> then you can use "s" instead of "sudo" (or alias sudo='su -c"') if you
> don't have sudo installed.

su -c becomes inconvenient if an option of a command needs quotation
marks, the alias isn't helpful then.

su -c "command --option "that needs quotation marks""

Sure, it's not hard to correct this line, so that it will work, but it's
not that handy as

sudo command --option "that needs quotation marks"

OTHO regarding to the amount of keystrokes

su -
command_1
command_n

is more pleasant than

sudo -i
command_1
command_n

> The price of convenience is often security.

There was a discussion about su vs sudo a while ago.

Regards,
Ralf


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