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 package & config file?
None that I know about
Is sudo slow or incompatible with certain commands?
None that I know about
Does it have a bad security track record?
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/alerts/
Is it still maintained, and will it be maintained in the foreseeable future?
Yes, it's still maintained, but as you can see from the CVS logs, not actively developed. I can't tell you if it's because sudo's pretty "done", or because simply nobody's improving it.
Does it conflict with other packages? Etc..
$ grep CONFLICTS /usr/ports/security/sudo/Makefile Exit 1 Apparently not..
Thanks for your answers! It seems this is not quite as resolved for FreeBSD as for Ubuntu et al..
Hope this helps..
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