On 4/7/07, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Also, although telnet is a hole nowdays for logging in to a system with
an id and password for the very reasons you have given, it still has
a use. You can use it to easily poke at a port and check the response
to
Jerry McAllister wrote:
I noticed one grammatical thing of question. In the first paragraph
under Use ssh instead of Telnet or rsh/rlogin it says
they should never be used to administrate a machine over a network,
I think the word should be 'administer' instead of 'administrate'
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:08:04PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
I noticed one grammatical thing of question. In the first paragraph
under Use ssh instead of Telnet or rsh/rlogin it says
they should never be used to administrate a machine over a network,
I
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:28:34AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
I thought I might also mention a potential sudo-shortcoming. :-D
See:
http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html
Where I
On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
True, if that was the case I'd use sudo. But I'm the only user on my systems
that I'd trust with root access, so there's no point with my setup.
[Please don't top post]
Anyway, yes, I would say it depends on the situation, and it's even a
matter of
True, if that was the case I'd use sudo. But I'm the only user on my systems
that I'd trust with root access, so there's no point with my setup.
On 4/5/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I
On 05/04/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 4/5/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something
as
root, I use su
I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something as
root, I use su to gain root privileges, then when I'm done, I exit and
return to the original user. The user running su must be in the group
wheel to be able to su to root. This is a simple yet convenient security
system.
On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do something as
root, I use su to gain root privileges, then when I'm done, I exit and
return to the original user. The user running su must be in the group
wheel to be able to su to root. This
On 4/5/07, Victor Engmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, the standard argument is that with sudo you don't have to worry about
executing something as root which you intended to execute as a normal user.
That's good enough for me, but are there any disadvantages except just
having another
On Thu, April 5, 2007 09:42, Victor Engmark wrote:
Hi all,
I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop,
but I'm
having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all)
and
Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old).
Are you using sudo? If
On 4/5/07, Victor Engmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Hello,
Are you using sudo? If not, why?
Yes I am. I would say anything allowing not to use the root password
is worth using.
Just man 5 sudoers to properly setup your sudoers file..
--
Victor Engmark
--
Pietro Cerutti
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Hi all,
I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm
having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and
Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old).
Are you using sudo? If not, why?
--
Victor Engmark
On 4/5/07, Victor Engmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm
having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and
Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old).
Are you using sudo? If not,
Victor Engmark wrote:
Hi all,
I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm
having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and
Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old).
It's not mentioned in the FreeBSD Handbook because it's
Hi again,
I thought I might also mention a potential sudo-shortcoming. :-D
See:
http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html
Where I wrote about a quoting problem that occasionally confuses
newbs like me.
Also, I don't speak for the BSD certification
RW wrote:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:56:28 -0500
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Victor Engmark wrote:
Hi all,
I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop,
but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not
mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:56:28 -0500
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Victor Engmark wrote:
Hi all,
I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop,
but I'm having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not
mentioned at all) and Google (most of the articles
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
I thought I might also mention a potential sudo-shortcoming. :-D
See:
http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html
Where I wrote about a quoting problem that occasionally confuses
newbs like me.
Hi Kevin,
I
On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:42 AM, Victor Engmark wrote:
Are you using sudo? If not, why?
I am using sudo. In /usr/local/etc/sudoers I have
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
Even though I'm the only person logging in, I still prefer to just
remember my password instead of having to remember root's.
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:28:34AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
I thought I might also mention a potential sudo-shortcoming. :-D
See:
http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Recognize_basic_recommended_access_methods.html
Where I wrote about a
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:42:27AM +0200, Victor Engmark wrote:
Hi all,
I thought it would be a good idea to use sudo on my FreeBSD laptop, but I'm
having doubts after checking the handbook (it's not mentioned at all) and
Google (most of the articles were obscure and / or old).
Are you
Christian Walther wrote:
On 05/04/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Moved answer to the bottom -- please don't use top post]
On 4/5/07, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/5/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't use sudo. I find it rather pointless. If I need to do
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:54:06PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
b) sudo can run commands directly instead of having to type in su, and
then run the command from the su'ed shell.
From man su:
If the optional args are provided on the command line, they are passed
to the login shell of the
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