On 8/20/05, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any information I can say in support of an Ubuntu-style sudo > over standard su?
>From my experence, there are all kinds of advantages to using sudo over su - Auditability (commands are (by default) logged to syslog) - 'sudoedit' <- *very* useful tool - No need for a shared admin password The following paper (that I happened to be reading earlier today) mentions these points, and why it was more appropriate for their site - and why they disabled 'su' from users: http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2004-12/pdfs/singer.pdf HTH. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
