On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 23:20, Andrei Popescu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Du, 14 nov 10, 20:54:42, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> And if 'sudo' isn't configured for you then that is the first thing >> that you will want to do. :-) >> >> # visudo >> rob ALL=(ALL) ALL > > What's wrong with su?
It is the The Wrong Way(TM), because it involves giving everyone the root password and unlimited authority, and it has very little in the way of logging. With sudo, you specifically log every command that gets run as root and who did it, each user uses their own password, and you can give as broad or as limited permissions as you want. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
