... *sigh* On 6/2/08, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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The Monday 2008-06-02 at 13:08 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The main purpose of sudo is to allow non-root to use root commands, without having to give them all the power that comes with knowing the root password. This is defeated by the install configuration.
The default config doesn't defeat anything. It merely makes sudo usable without configuration (sudo would issue a fake password
I agree that it serves a purpose, but it does defeat the idea of using root commands without knowing the root password. It defeats the idea of the real root determining what commands he allows his minions to use, and only those commands.
That configuration may makes sense for a single user, that is also root, which is also the idea behing them having the same password, as you said.
prompt and then complain by default if those two lines you dislike weren't there).
Of course, you have to configure what commands to allow, one by one. That's the idea ;-)
Think of it as su without stupid shell quoting problems. If you've already read the sudo manpage and therefore found out how to allow certain operations without root authentication feel free to run "sudo visudo" and change the config to your liking ("su -c visudo" if you want to boycot the default behavior ;-).
Of course I did that, ages ago :-)
But if I do know the root password, I don't bother about sudo; as much as I dislike using "su -c command" I also dislike "sudo command". I simply type "su -" once and then do as I please :-) .
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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