Jim Cheetham wrote:
lol. "sudo su" is almost pointless ... "sudo -s" gives you a root shell :-)
Ok, I do not have much experience with sudo and typing 'u' is for me
easier than '-'.
sudo has some major benefits in larger shared-admin systems, but from
Ubuntu's point of view, the prime benefit is that the workstation user
only has to be able to remember their own password in order to be able
to make changes. This model has also been selected by Apple for OSX, for
getter or for worse.
Of course, you could also edit the sudoers file and declare that your
user doesn't need to issue a password in order to get privs ...
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
I commented everything in /etc/sudoers. I do not like sudo. Normally two
thirds of the commands I use I do as root.
It's up to you how hackable you leave your system. :-)
I can rely on security through obsurity. By modifing the keyboard layout
for my own needs I have made it very difficult to use for anyone else.
The only problem with this is that it is difficult for me to use any
computer on which I have not copied that layout. nmap shows that I have
only one open port which is ssh and which I disable when I do not need it.
-jim
Happy Hacking,
Robert Himmelmann
