On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:28:57 +0000 Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:41 PM, <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:31:55 -0600 > > Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > > > >> Sudo has been on > >> HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, IBM AIX and others for many years. It isn't > >> anything new. It is a good worthy tool. > > > > This is not entirely correct. Sudo is considered third-party software > > in HP-UX (HP merely builds it and doesn't install by default), AIX (not > > provided by IBM and therefore not supported) and Solaris (third-party > > software without any support in versions =< 10). About the only > > exception is Solaris 11 which provides sudo in default install (and it > > is configured the same way as in Ubuntu by default). > > Solaris has had pfexec since Solaris 8.
Yes, but pfexec is not sudo. And privilege-aware Solaris shells are definitely not sudo too. > > Considering that primary usage of sudo is to provide controlled > > privilege escalation to uid=0, using unsupported (therefore - not > > updated unless local sysadmins care about security) sudo on these OSes > > is basically equivalent to giving everyone uid=0. > > Somewhat exaggerated :) No offense meant, but probably you're living in a some kind of IT paradise ;) 'Nobody does no evil, nobody does any mistakes' kind of paradise. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131026011611.f2a1e103756681a7d0e85...@gmail.com
