Randymanme
January 26th, 2012, 02:01 PM
At http://forums.linuxmint.com/posting.php?mode=quote&f=6&p=530510, a Fedora migrant wanted to know about sudo. Here's one of my posts there, (I just think it could be interesting to share and discuss):
Here's a page about the pros and cons of Ubuntu's setup: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
Thank you for sharing that page with me. Maybe, little-by-little, I might be starting to learn something. The tone and authority with which the writer(s) pontificated, was, for noobie-me, like sitting at the feet of Gamalial:
" . . . On a more esoteric level, sudo provides some features which encourage different work habits, which can positively impact the security of the system. sudo is commonly used to execute only a single command, while su is generally used to open a shell and execute multiple commands. The sudo approach reduces the likelihood of a root shell being left open indefinitely, and encourages the user to minimize their use of root privileges . . .."
Often, at my computer, I marvel over what must have been the impact of then-Bishop Desmond TuTu's Ubuntu theology as the basis of his anti-apartheid work and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize on a then-11-year old, privileged, Afrikaner boy (Mark Shuttleworth)?
Cheers
P.S. I'll leave my Mint and Ubuntu as is.
Here's a page about the pros and cons of Ubuntu's setup: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
Thank you for sharing that page with me. Maybe, little-by-little, I might be starting to learn something. The tone and authority with which the writer(s) pontificated, was, for noobie-me, like sitting at the feet of Gamalial:
" . . . On a more esoteric level, sudo provides some features which encourage different work habits, which can positively impact the security of the system. sudo is commonly used to execute only a single command, while su is generally used to open a shell and execute multiple commands. The sudo approach reduces the likelihood of a root shell being left open indefinitely, and encourages the user to minimize their use of root privileges . . .."
Often, at my computer, I marvel over what must have been the impact of then-Bishop Desmond TuTu's Ubuntu theology as the basis of his anti-apartheid work and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize on a then-11-year old, privileged, Afrikaner boy (Mark Shuttleworth)?
Cheers
P.S. I'll leave my Mint and Ubuntu as is.