SSH hacked?

[Mark Haney]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> I personally find using sudo inconvenient.   Maybe it's just a history
>> of having worked on Unix (HP and Solaris) systems for so many years
>> but sudo just seems like a workaround to me.
> 
> I think sudo protects against automatic infections/takeovers, due to 
> some software bug and/or user error.
> 

How do you think it does that?  I mean only a fool would run normal DTD
operations as root, so this doesn't make any sense.  And it won't
protect against automatic infections if the infection TRIES to run
itself via sudo.



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