On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:56, you wrote: > On Feb 14, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: > > sudo then if their user account is compromised then only a subset of > > commands are available. > > If it's a laptop, the most probable account compromise is someone > actually getting physical access to the machine. At which point it's > game over, they have the hard-drive, they have access to everything > (except extremely-well encrypted data, I guess - and there will > probably be none of that)
Correct. > So that's not a "real" risk :-) Theft is a real risk. > > If your newbie wants to become more advanced, sudo is a better > mechanism to explore than "su -" is ... I'm not sure he does. He wants email and web. I'll think about it but what I will probably end up with sudo for just restarting the mwave driver. Andy
