-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-06-02 at 08:12 -0300, Druid wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de> 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.
WRONG! The main purpose in sudo is to permit audits and non sharable root passwords in CORPORATE environments which have MULTIPLE system administrators. Despite the ubuntu propaganda. Nothing, nothing and no amount of ubuntu bizarreness making-truth-from-a-lie-by-repetition will change that.
I have never used ubuntu nor read their propaganda, so what you say is not true. I don't care what they say, and I stand by what I said, which predates ubuntu. Per the man: sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file and the group vector is initialized based on the group file (unless the -P option was specified). If the invoking user is root or if the target user is the same as the invoking user, no password is required. Otherwise, sudo requires that users authenticate themselves with a password by default > (NOTE: in the default configuration this is the user's password, > not the root password). Once a user has been authenticated, a timestamp is updated and the user may then use sudo without a password for a short period of time (5 minutes unless overridden in sudoers). Nothing about corporate users or audits in the man page (although it is true, log entries are written). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIQ+NytTMYHG2NR9URAnkdAJwIiFESFv+FIRoSMmTt3qwgSBUAMACffrj5 ne4j9n7Wv/GytZlEz6gaqH0= =xjUp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org