From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:30:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikchhW+vZR=__CaUjV_ccQQY4eq57Xy7YBDQtQj@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C606312.5060105@gmail.com>
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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)
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-09 16:25 [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice Paul Hartman
2010-08-09 16:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-09 18:48 ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-09 18:59 ` [gentoo-user] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2010-08-09 19:08 ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-09 19:46 ` Mick
2010-08-10 13:50 ` Kyle Bader
2010-08-09 19:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2010-08-09 20:08 ` Robert Bridge
2010-08-09 20:20 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-10 0:30 ` Kevin O'Gorman [this message]
2010-08-10 1:18 ` William Hubbs
2010-08-10 6:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-10 13:03 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-10 18:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-10 19:22 ` Hazen Valliant-Saunders
2010-08-10 23:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-08-11 16:55 ` Stroller
2010-08-11 18:16 ` Dale
2010-08-11 20:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-11 22:11 ` [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice - AKA passwords Bill Longman
2010-08-11 23:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-12 4:30 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-12 13:01 ` [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice Stroller
2010-08-12 19:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-12 19:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-08-12 20:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-12 12:56 ` Stroller
2010-08-13 2:11 ` Dale
2010-08-11 16:58 ` Stroller
2010-08-11 20:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-09 20:25 ` Dale
2010-08-09 21:22 ` Mick
2010-08-09 22:19 ` Dale
2010-08-09 21:17 ` Philip Webb
2010-08-09 23:07 ` Paul Hartman
2010-08-10 2:14 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-08-10 2:24 ` Indexer
2010-08-11 1:05 ` Walter Dnes
2010-08-11 2:16 ` Dale
2010-08-11 4:36 ` Walter Dnes
2010-08-11 5:37 ` Dale
2010-08-10 2:30 ` Keith Dart
2010-08-10 3:06 ` Adam Carter
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