On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:43:04 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Except this means you have to give the user permission to run bash, > > and subsequently any command as root. > > True. But with "sudo su -c", you've got to have the same > sort of trust, don't you?
Yes, they are both equally bad ideas. > > You may as well give them the root > > password and let them use su. > > Or don't give the root password and use sudo for everything, > which is what Ubuntu is doing. Using sudo instead of su > is better in so far, as you're not so likely to run everything > in a root shell (yes, I know that "sudo bash" is possible). That's not such a risk, most people only do "rm -fr /" once :) -- Neil Bothwick (A)bort (R)etry (T)ake an axe to it?
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