On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:47:18 +0100 Dave Turner <dave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> I always thought su was the wrong way to go about things. > Give me sudo every time. How much stuff do you want to put in sudoers? You really want to do what Ubuntu does? > (there are assorted long discussions about su vs sudo out there on > the interweb, let's not repeat them here!) > Just be glad we still have a choice! That's really the crux of it, isn't it. Whether we have a choice. Whether we have the right to say "hey, with my use case, I want to use sudo!" The systemd cabal is trying to take that away. Using my desktop, today I ran a program in lxterminal, and it failed for lack of root. No problem, I ran it with sudo, and that failed because the program wasn't in sudoers. No problem, I did su -c "program name with arguments" and bang, it got done. I sure like that ability, and I'd sure miss it when it's gone. I use it every day. Sometimes I need a root xterm. Now my mama didn't raise no fool, I run X as slitt, not as root. So when I need a root xterm, I run xterm, then run su -. No problem. For now. But Red Hat's working to make it a problem. SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng