Re: sudo and UNIXes (was: audacity export wma format[1 more question])
Hi.
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:31:55 -0600
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Sudo has been on
> HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, IBM AIX and others for many years. It isn't
> anything new. It is a good worthy tool.
This is not entirely correct. Sudo is considered third-party software
in HP-UX (HP merely builds it and doesn't install by default), AIX (not
provided by IBM and therefore not supported) and Solaris (third-party
software without any support in versions =< 10). About the only
exception is Solaris 11 which provides sudo in default install (and it
is configured the same way as in Ubuntu by default).
Considering that primary usage of sudo is to provide controlled
privilege escalation to uid=0, using unsupported (therefore - not
updated unless local sysadmins care about security) sudo on these OSes
is basically equivalent to giving everyone uid=0.
Reco
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