Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[lee]

alex goretoy wrote:
> I know what you mean about sudo. It's mostly a pain for me because I 
> have to re-enter my password all the time. One way that I go around 
> this is have screen in terminal and some windows in screen one for 
> sudo su -, ssh session, etc...
>
> I have a .screenrc I put together from pieces I found on the internet. 
> pastebin http://screenrc.pastebin.com/f47b8fd50
>
> You can find my .bashrc here
>
> http://starnixalpha.blogspot.com/2008/09/fast-commandline-navigation-with-alias.html
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> -Alex Goretoy
> http://www.alexgoretoy.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Res <res at ausics.net 
> <mailto:res at ausics.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
>
>     > backups and beer... Once an intruder has local access, all bets
>     are off.
>
>     True, but its still a far safer bet than using sudo on a general
>     publicly
>     accesible box. There exists risks in everything, the threat level
>     depends on how much you want to help the norti lil kiddies by
>     making it
>     X much easier, or harder, for them.
>
>     --
>     Res
>
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That may be good for the experts but what about the nubbies out there 
that do not have a clue as what trouble they can get into with su, if 
you want su account why not just go the way windose does it. Think about it

Lee
leewen at primus.ca
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