[lug] sudo better than su (was: Using consoles)

[Mike Loseke]

Thus spake Michael Deck:
> 
> At 09:53 AM 9/29/99 -0600, PC Drew wrote:
> >Secondly...why aren't you using sudo?  It's mo' betta.
> 
> I'm a newbie so maybe I missed something, but why do you say this? In my
> newbie-ness I seem to spend a lot of time logged in as root, mostly
> cleaning up stuff that I hosed up doing something else, or tweaking my
> firewalling scripts, or installing software, etc. I usually use "su"
> because I'm actually telnetting in across my LAN (my Linux box is in a
> closet) and because prefixing every command with "sudo" seems a pain. I use
> sudo when it's one or two commands. 

 sudo is configurable to the point that can drive a micro-manager to
ecstacy. It can also be a very simple config. It does log commands executed
which is nice, especially on systems where more than one person have/need
root access. 

 sudo is most useful on systems that are already setup and are just being
adminned. There's a time and place for su and sudo each. sudo shouldn't be
considered a global replacemnt for su as it isn't always needed.

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