Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 02:27:48PM +0200, Martin wrote:
> Am 07.08.2018 um 14:07 schrieb The Wanderer:
> > On 2018-08-07 at 07:47, Martin wrote:
> > > As a system operator, you need some elevated privileges on a daily
> > > basis. How do you do that without sudo?
> >
> > No, I don't. I only need them when I'm doing elevated things, such as
> > installs or upgrades. (In practice on some machines, I do those on
> > around a weekly basis or slightly more frequently, but it can be argued
> > that that's overkill.) The overwhelming majority of what I do does not
> > require elevated privileges, and the few things which do are not needed
> > anywhere near daily.
>
> Starting and stopping services (e.g. running systemctl), changing configurations, all things you, where individual decisions have to be made, reuire elevated privileges. root in many cases.

It's ironic that while forcefully telling people they're doing it wrong, 
you're managing a bunch of machines with no configuration management, 
manually editing files directly on systems. You have your preferred way 
of doing things, other people do things other ways. I don't think there 
are any new points here, so please stop repeating that yours is the only 
correct way to operate so the thread can die a natural death.

Mike Stone