Bruce Marshall < bmarsh at bmarsh.com >

[Greg Booth]

> 1. Get the facts about sudo.



That's why I was asking this question. It seems to me there's no benefit to using sudo versus su. You get the same functionality, plus it almost seems that your password gets cached somehow. If you run a number of sudo commands one after the other it only prompts you the first time, that caching functionality to me seems strange as I don't understand it or what it's doing.



> 2. Use the enter key to create paragraphs in your text.



I did. This excite webmail editor does strange things and I can't control it.



> 3. Avoid HTML 



Thought I was in the regular editor. My apologies. I apologize in advance if this shows up strangely, I'm definitely in the text editor and it looks fine to me





As for the security of the system if you have sudo you only have to have any users account password to be able to access root authority. To me that seems worse security than tighter security. What's worse, any user on the system able to do sudo <command> using their own, possibly suspect password, or requiring you to use a second password known only to people that should have that authority?



I'm not knocking it. the system works great, I just don't understand the reasoning they'd want to open up root access that way.