[olug] Ubuntu, cant su root

[Charles.Bird]

its fun breaking things as root unless its friday afternoon :D



On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:15 PM, adunlop <techworld.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> > 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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