[K12OSN] Ubuntu question quick - Dave?

[Martin Woolley]

On Friday 22 April 2005 00:59, musicman wrote:
> I've always found that running from  sudo was "good practice", and
> root/su should be used as rarely as possible, adn I think they've
> taken that line - although the merit's of it are not universally
> accepted, I guess....it's probably a good way to be - I've thought of
> it as linux showing windows "how it's done" - people have to
> consciously move to sudo to do anything,
> hence, security is watertight....

except that you soon get very tired of prefixing each command with sudo, so 
you issue the command "su -s -H" which brings up the root shell, so you can 
just enter commands normally.   IMHO, if they were really serious about 
security they would have come up with something like smit which runs on AIX.  
For those who don't know it is a menu driven environment that makes it easier 
to do all of your system admin tasks.  Yes you can still use the command line 
but you encourage each administrator to do things under smit. Why?  It has an 
audit log built in, so that you can see exactly what has been done in your 
absence.

-- 
Regards
Martin Woolley
ICT Support
Handsworth Grammar School
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