>>> On 1/22/2009 at 3:31 PM, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > But this approach still has most of the problems of shared userids. > When two people have both logged in as root with their own cryptic key > pair, you will be mostly puzzled which of them did the things that > turned out to be a problem (because the PID of the shell is not part > of most auditing). > > With sudo you get the privileged commands in the system logging and it > is much easier to understand what happened and who is to blame.
Agreed. Just pointing out some gaps in what was being tossed back and forth. Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
