[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Charles.Bird<charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:
> its fun breaking things as root unless its friday afternoon :D
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> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:15 PM, adunlop <techworld.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I do most of my work as root.  If you don't know the specific and
>> detailed consequence of the command you're about to run, you shouldn't
>> be running it as any user.  If you haven't double-checked the command
>> before you hit enter you deserve what's coming.  I think that using
>> sudo to keep yourself from causing damage is a sloppy way of doing shop.
>>
>> And with anything else, don't run untested commands on a production
>> box, and keep backups of all work.
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Will Langford wrote:
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>> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Charles.Bird <charles.bird at powerdnn.com
>> > >wrote:
>> >
>> >> I wonder why that is?
>> >> it didnt used to be like that did it, on older versions on Ubuntu?
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > There was a thread a few months ago about this.  Basically, some
>> > security
>> > minded folks think you should run commands with escalated
>> > privileges, not
>> > run a shell with escalated privvies.  Thus, you shouldn't have a
>> > root shell,
>> > but rather `sudo command` for each special thing you need to do.
>> >
>> > While not in full agreement with the philosophy, we do have a new
>> > guy here
>> > at work that does *everything* as root while fiddling with his
>> > development
>> > stuff.  A tad irritating :)
>> >
>> > -Will
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