On Dec 19, 2007, at 1:50 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Yeah ... sudo is more secure than su. In fact, some systems, for > example, the Gentoo LiveCD, scrambles the root password. So you > have to do > > $ sudo su - > > and then set a password to ssh in as root.
+1 This is the same thing as in OS X. I've been able to do everything I need to from the command-line in OS X using sudo without ever having to set the root password. If there's a way to make this fit in with the security model and the concerns on the trac entry, then I'm all for it. nick _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
