On 29 May 2009, at 18:29, Haik Aftandilian wrote:
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, David Abrahams d...@boostpro.com
wrote:
I have already been using it, thanks. It's not that
I prefer sudo; I'm just trying to understand the proper place of
pfexec
in the system. It's a little odd to issue admin commands without
ever issuing a password, but I guess sudo doesn't really offer more
security since an intruder has probably already got your password if
he's logged in as you?
No, I don't think that logic stands up. Using sudo is more secure
and it is also what users are accustomed to doing on other systems
like Ubuntu Linux or Mac OS X. See bug 1945:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1945
The above is really a dup of http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4885
(or vice versa). Hopefully it will be fixed in the next release.
-M
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