On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:01:56AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > On Aug 16, 2019, at 6:21 AM, Warren Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 15, 2019, at 11:04 PM, Bagas Sanjaya <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Based on above cases, is it OK to give group of random users full > >> administrator privileges using sudo, by adding them to sudoers with ALL > >> privileges? Should sudoers call customer service number instead of > >> sysadmin when something breaks? > > > > sudo is a tool for expressing and enforcing a site’s policies regarding > > superuser privilege. > > > > If your sudo configuration expresses and enforces those policies the way > > you want it to, then the configuration is correct. If it does not, then > > fix it. > > Incidentally, sudo stands for substitute user do. Meaning: executing > something as a different user. I keep repeading it to proficient Linux users > who sometimes need my help too, amazingly they all percieve it as a super > user do, not as a substitute user do. Even though “man sudo” says in the > first line: - execute a command as another user… > > Just mentioning. > > Valeri > Hear, hear, +1.
And if I may add, a similar comment may be applied to "su". jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
