Re: Sudo

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Thu 24 Mar 2016 at 11:15:35 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Yes. Type w and you'll see the time at which you just logged in.
> 
> That seems to me like a completely unimportant detail, with little to
> no consequence.  When compared to the consequences of having a shell
> with uid==0 this seems like nitpicking.
> 
> So, it confirms my suspicion that "root login" is used to refer to
> a distinction that is pretty much irrelevant (tho I guess there is the
> fact the root access occurs via some other local user, so you get
> a tiny little bit of a trace).
> 
> Stefan "who usually uses `su -` but thinks of it as a `root login`"

Whether the distinction is important to you or not doesn't change the
meaning of the words themselves. Besides, I didn't think there were
any unimportant details when dealing with security. "Sloppy usage
usually implies, and certainly encourages, sloppy thinking." (CJ Date)

Cheers,
David.