On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 06:51 +0530, Raman.P wrote: > > sudo is meant for small children who might accidently do > > things they > > should not do - once one is old enough to know what to do > > and what not > > to do, sudo is no longer necessary. > > I agree with above partly. It is not only for children but also for > adults who do thing carelessly.
true - before I grew up I used to log in as root, startx as root browse as root and su to my id for mail and things. And of course I got rootkitted. I also did one or two rm -rfs in the wrong place. [...] > sudo: Is a separate package to facilitate delegating some work like - > adding user, mounting devices etc without taking avatar as root. This > is useful in multiuser environment (by multiuser I really mean > multiple human beings) where some people may be authorised to > shutdown,take backup etc. As pointed out by Girish, this avoids > necessity for setuid and setgid. yes - for multiuser environment where there is more than one admin, it is necessary (but not for a laptop which the OP is using) -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
