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-Jim P.

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:51 -0400, attriel wrote:
> > Why is sudo not good enough?  If you need to run some program as root
> > then use sudo.  That is what it was designed for.
> 
> Actually, until recently, I never used sudo, b/c I always felt it was a
> security hole, since it allowed people without the root password to do
> rooty things.
> 
> Recently, however, one of the sysadmin groups at my office that I work
> with has moved all non-group admins to using sudo for rooty things, and
> I've been learning about it.  And since they gave me full sudo access (ie
> -- I can sudo -s and have a root shell just like I su'd), i'm finding that
> it works just as well for me, and leaves a trail.
> 
> Also I've realized that the fact that I can now sudo and a keylogger can
> catch the password isn't really that different than when I could su and a
> keylogger could do it.  Go figure, whoops :o
> 
> Here's a question, though:  How do you pronounce it?
> 
> I always pronounce it "pseudo" as in "pretend I'm not me and do this"
> The admins I'm talking to pronounce it "su, do" as in "as the superuser,
> do this" ...
> 
> So, how do YOU pronounce it? :)
> 
> --attriel (nee death at cc)
> 
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