Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:30:40PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 08/09/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Bridge wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo
> > on
> > >> *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running
> > everything
> > >> as root, right?
> > >
> > > sudo normally logs the command executed, and the account which
> > > executes it, so while not relevant for single user systems, it STILL
> > > has benefits over running as root.
> >
> > ...excepting, of course, "sudo bash -l" which means you've given away
> > the keys to the kingdom.
> >
> > I actually prefer "sudo su -" -- as long as I'm giving it away!  :o)

Afaik, there is no reason for "sudo su -"  It should be either

su -

or, if you are using sudo, 

sudo -i

The disadvantage of "su -" is that it requires the user to know the root
password.  But, "sudo -i" does the same thing without requiring the user
to know the root password.

William