On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:41 PM, <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:31:55 -0600 > Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
>> Sudo has been on >> HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, IBM AIX and others for many years. It isn't >> anything new. It is a good worthy tool. > > This is not entirely correct. Sudo is considered third-party software > in HP-UX (HP merely builds it and doesn't install by default), AIX (not > provided by IBM and therefore not supported) and Solaris (third-party > software without any support in versions =< 10). About the only > exception is Solaris 11 which provides sudo in default install (and it > is configured the same way as in Ubuntu by default). Solaris has had pfexec since Solaris 8. > Considering that primary usage of sudo is to provide controlled > privilege escalation to uid=0, using unsupported (therefore - not > updated unless local sysadmins care about security) sudo on these OSes > is basically equivalent to giving everyone uid=0. Somewhat exaggerated :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SyHvrF=gpje83ryhjf+iyrlc6aqmtdhbjbjtfdfowt...@mail.gmail.com
