[ale] Root vs Normal User

[Dow Hurst]

sue-doo so you don't boo-boo!
Dow

Jim Popovitch wrote:

>sue-doo.  ;-)
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>-Jim P.
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>On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:51 -0400, attriel wrote:
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>>>Why is sudo not good enough?  If you need to run some program as root
>>>then use sudo.  That is what it was designed for.
>>>      
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>>Actually, until recently, I never used sudo, b/c I always felt it was a
>>security hole, since it allowed people without the root password to do
>>rooty things.
>>
>>Recently, however, one of the sysadmin groups at my office that I work
>>with has moved all non-group admins to using sudo for rooty things, and
>>I've been learning about it.  And since they gave me full sudo access (ie
>>-- I can sudo -s and have a root shell just like I su'd), i'm finding that
>>it works just as well for me, and leaves a trail.
>>
>>Also I've realized that the fact that I can now sudo and a keylogger can
>>catch the password isn't really that different than when I could su and a
>>keylogger could do it.  Go figure, whoops :o
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>>Here's a question, though:  How do you pronounce it?
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>>I always pronounce it "pseudo" as in "pretend I'm not me and do this"
>>The admins I'm talking to pronounce it "su, do" as in "as the superuser,
>>do this" ...
>>
>>So, how do YOU pronounce it? :)
>>
>>--attriel (nee death at cc)
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