On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:11:52PM +0200, David Nielsen wrote: > > For newbies like me, understanding the sudoers file isn't so easy, but > > nevertheless they may need the sudo command. In my case, I'd rather my > > account would have been added automatically to the sudoers list :) > Why do you need sudo, I mean what does it add that a correctly seperated > privilaged user doesn't? Principle of least privilege. Sudo provides a mechanism to add and drop certain privileges (in a course-grained user-account-based way) with a long-established history. We can and should make it work in a new and better way too, of course. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
