[olug] To Sudo or Not to Sudo, That is the Question

[Brady Cox]

I use sudo on my personal machine and on my work machine.  I find it is
better to follow the standard conventions, plus from a security standpoint
running as root all the time doesn't sit well with me.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Dave Pfister <dave.pfister at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't really have an issue with the sudo setup in Ubuntu's default
> distribution, at work it's not that onerous, then again I don't do alot of
> installing/uninstalling.  Once a day/week to get prompted for a pw to
> upgrade isn't a big deal for me.   On work machines we manage most stuff
> through sudo, which doesn't really bother me either, most of my work can be
> done from userland as well, honestly I find user/group/permissions
> management more of a hassle than getting prompted for a password.
>
> I guess from a philosophical standpoint I'm of the belief that it's better
> to make running as root less accessible to the average user, basic
> permissions sandboxing is future-proofing against sloppy/broken security
> configurations such as those we see in Windows.
>
>  - Dave
>
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