14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
4:29 p.m.
You don't trust some users with the root password,
but you allow them
a root shell via sudo and trust them not to install back doors.
-spc (My head a splode ... )
Yes. Trust is not a single-dimensioned thing.
The set of users trusted to be non-malicious is quite often very far
from the same set as the set of users trusted to not
make disastrous
mistakes by accident when handed a full-powered root shell. sudo
used
as described (in text I cut) is entirely appropriate for those who are
in the former set but not the latter set. (Well, to the extent that
sudo is appropriate for anything at all; after trying to install it at
work, I don't really consider it so.)
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