Quoting Tom Rauschenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I;m hearing that root access is seldom if ever needed. I'm hearing talk of
> production environments, engineering environments, development envronments
> etc. Let's talk about "my machine". Not my workstation at work, not a
> machine
> somebody else owns, not my wife's machine not nothing. MY PC running
> LINUX.
> Should I use root login or sudo ? Simple question.
In a home environment, I personally just use root, and don't worry about
sudo. Now, I have other *users* that use my home machine, and they have the
ability to mount and unmount remote drives (I have a small 486 just serving as
a File server). THEY do so via sudo.
> Hard question. Is the answer to the simple question (whatever the answer
> is)
> what it is because it's also the answer for my employer owned workstation,
> production machine etc. or the other way around ? Should I use good
> practice
> at home because it's good practice, or should I use good practice only at
> work
> because it only matters there ?
In a home environment, where you do not have other users accessing the
system, then root is probrably the best route, and not sudo.
A) We assume you know what your doing, and don't need it logged.
B) We assume that if someone does hack the machine, they're going to go for
root, and *NOT* sudo.
There is also the fact that a machine machine is much more likely to
get 'hacked' then in a corperate environment. If you have things setup to
sudo, you may then be more suseptable, becouse instead of attempting to hack
root, they can hack you, and have root access to whatever you are sudo on.
Granted, it's logged somewhere, but not to many people with home machines
regularly monitor their logs..
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Thomas Charron
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