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

[John Crowhurst]

On Sat, July 15, 2006 17:48, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> Colin Tuckley <colin at tuckley.org> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Isn't that "more secure"?

I wouldn't use the words "more secure" as the commands have different uses:

An admin can grant a user access to a program that requires root to run
using sudo. The admin can control what programs and which users have
access to the programs through the /etc/sudoers.

su enables a normal user account to gain super user (root) access. An
admin would use su on a remote machine that refuses root logins.

sudo asks for the user's password, su asks for the root password.

-- 
John