[plug] Su vs Sudo

[William Kenworthy]

For a user - no.  But I cant see anyone doing serious sysadmin without
being root - which should require authentication of some sort.

BillK

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 18:24 +0800, Michael Holland wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Joshua Chase wrote:
> 
> > Which is better sudo or su? I think su is better because of ease of config.
> 
> su and root passwords are obsolete. Even without special config, sudo is
> better.
> A shared secret is hard to change. With sudo, you just list which users
> are allowed root access, and they use their own passwords. Prompting
> for password at sudo means that while a 'user' has root access, that
> user's regular processes do not.
>   I cannot think of any good reason for having a root password. Anyone?
> 
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