From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OiYey-0001RR-LB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:09:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28F61E0B97; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3AFE0739 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb7 with SMTP id 7so6951999qwb.40 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.28.75 with SMTP id l11mr8953787qac.64.1281384511505; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.215.21 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:08:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [89.204.231.125] In-Reply-To: <201008092009.38665.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201008092009.38665.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:08:31 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice From: Robert Bridge To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 09346fc6-e89d-4ff3-ac9a-23e4d25e7214 X-Archives-Hash: 8cfa5d941b471a75b4ff28da98c81c0f On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick 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. RobbieAB