Sudo Usage and Security
Discussions center on the use of sudo for privilege escalation, its security benefits versus direct root access, criticisms of its complexity, and alternatives like doas or avoiding it altogether.
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I never understood the obsession with sudo. Why not just be root in the first place?
Why couldn't he just say to use sudo?
This is the second one of these i've seen and neither of them does anything interesting with 'sudo'... :|
humm, the sudo makes me shudder.
Maybe better approach is to make stuff not require sudo in the first place.
in a community of technologists, you've never heard of 'sudo privileges'? :-)
because sudo improves security over 'su' and raw root logins, obviously
I really thought sudo would do the trick.
Wait? This doesn't require people to remove su right? Isn't it just a preferred alternative?
Will this replace the current sudo ?