On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:08:56PM -0800, David Talkington wrote: > Ben Logan wrote: > > >That's what I do. I use sudo for the few things that I want everyone > >else (in my family) to be able to use but that require root access. > >For example, burning CDs > > Even that's not necessary, if you're willing to make cdrecord suid-0.
True, but I think sudo is generally considered safer. It was also easier to just make the cd-burning tools available through sudo than to follow X-CDRoast's instructions in making everything suid. (IOW, I'm lazy. :) I wrote a shell script wrapper that makes it easier to get the pictures off our camera using gphoto2 (I really prefer the CLI to a GUI). Since you can't set a shell script suid-0, sudo lets me allow other trusted users to get the pictures without everyone having to know the root password. Regards, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
