Particularly since you can use "sudo -s" to get a "root" shell.<br><br>I personally use sudo even on distros that don't require its use, as I find that I think more if I have to type "sudo" before commands that require root access.
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On 30/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Holland</b> <<a href="mailto:myk@myk.id.au">myk@myk.id.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Joshua Chase wrote:<br><br>> Which is better sudo or su? I think su is better because of ease of config.<br><br>su and root passwords are obsolete. Even without special config, sudo is<br>better.<br>
A shared secret is hard to change. With sudo, you just list which users<br>are allowed root access, and they use their own passwords. Prompting<br>for password at sudo means that while a 'user' has root access, that
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