--- On Thu, 4/11/10, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote:
> > sudo is meant for small children who might accidently do > things they > should not do - once one is old enough to know what to do > and what not > to do, sudo is no longer necessary. I agree with above partly. It is not only for children but also for adults who do thing carelessly. That said comparing su and sudo are comparing apple and oranges. su: shift user - i.e. you become another user and do some work. Essentially you become the other user for all purposes. sudo: Is a separate package to facilitate delegating some work like - adding user, mounting devices etc without taking avatar as root. This is useful in multiuser environment (by multiuser I really mean multiple human beings) where some people may be authorised to shutdown,take backup etc. As pointed out by Girish, this avoids necessity for setuid and setgid. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
