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

[Will Langford]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:

> I use sudo all the time.  At home, it saves me from accidentally blowing
> something away.   At work, it's a security measure.   I ask my users to use
> it, so I need to lead by example.
>
> Dave Thacker
>

I did some more thinking about our model here at work.  Generally, I'm the
only person who would ever need root access, and generally nothing 'service
level' (our daemons and client code and data) need root access.  So, I tend
to quickly su to root, do whever, and exit back to user level permissions.

I imagine sudo might make security audits easier... but... it's not
applicable for us as a company -- and for regular desktop / home usage - the
standard 'do only system shit as root' still applies... meaning a root
prompt is rare.

-Will