[Sussex] Two operating systems & one camera...

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Sat Jul 15 15:23:57 UTC 2006


On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:55:44PM +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote:
> Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> 
> > sudo is more secure than su as well.
> 
> Not more secure, it's more that you can assign different privileges to
> different people while giving someone "root" allows them to do anything.
> 

You can also remove privileges when people leave very quickly with sudo. If
people know root passwords either you have to go round changing them or they
(frequently) get left as-is.

Sudo also can audit what people do, which can be useful.

"Who broke it?!" etc

Cheers,
Al.





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