John Hudak wrote:I believe the argument for using sudo is that it becomes possible to run a system without a root account.
I've seen apps installed in sbin, and /home/username when from my
perspective, they should have been in bin. While I haven't used a lot
of different distros (slackware, RH (prior to their business model
change), and commercial Unix distros by att, sun, dec, HP), I've never
run into 'sudo'...I can understand the security argument for this, but
don't necessarily agree with the approach. Anyway. its more of a 'Why
do they do this' as a general question as opposed to a specific
configuration.
Guess I should take this question to the Debian forum....
This is the default for an Ubuntu install. No risk of a user running as root.
Prompting the user for his password when he is doing "root things" makes it very clear that he is doing root
things. Windows has adopted this idea.
Ubuntu has a goal of being usable by less sophisticated users. Deviations from "Unix standards" (whichever
one you prefer) should be evaluated against this goal.
It seems reasonable to me to call the apache binary, "apache". But there is always pain in getting from here to
there when computer standards are being changed.
Stephen
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