Re: sudo and UNIXes (was: audacity export wma format[1 more question])
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:41 PM, <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
Solaris has had pfexec since Solaris 8.
> 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.
Somewhat exaggerated :)
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