In a message dated: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:27:20 EDT
Tom Rauschenbach said:
>If I might be so bold as to change the angle of this discussion...
Go ahead, everyone else has, 2 or 3 times at least :)
>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.
Use whatever the heck you want. It's your machine.
I use both root *and* sudo. Sometimes I sudo to su to root :)
>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 ?
Well, in theory, I'd say do what's good practice because it's good practice.
That being said, I've never really done a backup of my home systems, one of
which is 7+ years old!
Now, I do use the good practices of securing the system I connect to my ISP
with, like battening down inetd, shutting off stuff that shouldn't be run,
using a hosts.allow/deny file using ssh going between work and home, etc.
I use good passwords which (again in theory) should be hard to guess.
But again, it's a single system, it's yours, the only person affected by what
you do for the most part is you, and millions of dollars or proprietary
company secrets aren't at stake. You need to decide what's an acceptable
risk.
--
Seeya,
Paul
----
"I always explain our company via interpretive dance.
I meet lots of interesting people that way."
Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
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