On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:00:14PM +0100, Emilien Klein wrote: > > You should use su in your scripts. > > OK, but why? > What I'm missing so far is an explanation on why we shouldn't use sudo for > this use-case.
I have heard the following argument from among Debian Devs: su is included with any installation (unless forcefully removed) while sudo is optional However, I don't feel depending on sudo is the End of The World. Also, your characterization > Following the Unix philosophy of using a collection of specialized small > tools that do one thing best, when performing an action as another user it > seems to be the correct thing to use a tool that "execute a command as > another user" rather than one whose primary goal is "change user ID or > become superuser" seems fairly succinct. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
