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Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo



Am 07.08.2018 um 14:19 schrieb Stephan Seitz:
> On Di, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:46:55 +0000, Curt wrote:
>> But it seems the whole point of the thing in a multi-user environment is
>> that you can use a granular approach to permissions, so I suppose if you
>> didn't desire a particular user modifying the logs, while granting her
>> other administrative privileges, that would fall completely within the
>> purview of the philosophy and implementation of the soft that is 'sudo'.
> 
> Exactly. At home I’m the only person using my computer, so I don’t need the sudo philosophy.
> 
> At work we’re using sudo (interestingly without asked password, so if you could login, you can do „sudo -i”), but there is no administrator difference. Everyone in our small group has always full administrator access.

It's the NOPASSWD directive in sudoers.

> 
> Shade and sweet water!
> 
>     Stephan
> 


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