* Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> [02-29-12 15:28]:
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 15:22 -0500, Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 02/29/2012 03:13 PM, jdd wrote:
Le 29/02/2012 20:40, Larry Stotler a écrit :
As many are aware, Linus Torvalds has started a rant about the security policies
what about give sudo rights to his daugther?
That was one of the suggestions in the google+ comments.
sudo has the huge disadvantage that it opens up too much. The app can do anything root can, when perhaps it is a limited thing you want to allow.
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