[ale] Philosophy of "root"

[James Kinney]

Look into "sudo". It allows you to set up certain commands (or everything,
if want) to be executed with root priviledges by prepending the command
sudo to the desired action command.

sudo rm -rf * will have disasterous results!

JimK
Local Net Solutions

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, David Corbin wrote:

> I understand that "being root all the time" is a bad and dangerous
> thing.  I spend a fair amount of time just doing various system
> maintenance.  Most distributions set up a lot of the file system with
> root/root uid/gid.  Up until now, I just su-ed to root when I need to. 
> I'm wonder if it is better to change assorted files to another group
> (and chmod g+sw), and add my userid to that group.   Then I could do
> more without being root.  (I suppose I could just add myself to the root
> group).
> 
> The question is, which is a better thing to do from a security/system
> mgmt. point of view.
> 
> Thanks.
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> David Corbin 		
> Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc.
> http://www.machturtle.com
> dcorbin at machturtle.com
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