On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 14:15 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/09/2016 01:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > SUdo is useful even when you do have root. I use it all the time > > because I don't like actually logging in as root if I can avoid it. > > I > > know you can use "su -c bla bla" but sudo is quicker and easier to > > remember. > > I, OTOH, find su -c quite satisfactory, TYVM. The only reason I > have > sudo installed is that there are some install scripts that use > it. Of > course, back when I first started using Linux at home, almost 20 > years > ago, RedHat didn't come with sudo so I never got in the habit of > using > it. I knew about it because I had to telnet to various Unix/Linux > servers (all inside the corporate firewall) at work, and worked with > shell scripts that used sudo, but that's it. I'm surprised that RH didn't come with sudo. I was using it on Solaris long before Linux was even a thing. > And, as far as security goes, all you need to do is disable Telnet > and > configure ssh to disallow direct root login. Of course, SOP. I also use fail2ban so in fact the baddies don't even get as far as the SSH login. > That way, even if somebody > manages to crack your password and get shell access via ssh, they > can't > use sudo to do any major damage. (I'm never in wheel, and my > username > isn't in /etc/sudoers, just to be safe.) Paranoid? Not really, > it's > just that I see no reason to have sudo set up if I'm not using it. My password is long, but I do find sudo useful. To each his own. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
