sudo disappears after latest update

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 14:15 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/09/2016 01:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > SUdo is useful even when you do have root. I use it all the time
> > because I don't like actually logging in as root if I can avoid it.
> > I
> > know you can use "su -c bla bla" but sudo is quicker and easier to
> > remember.
> 
> I, OTOH, find su -c quite satisfactory, TYVM.  The only reason I
> have 
> sudo installed is that there are some install scripts that use
> it.  Of 
> course, back when I first started using Linux at home, almost 20
> years 
> ago, RedHat didn't come with sudo so I never got in the habit of
> using 
> it.  I knew about it because I had to telnet to various Unix/Linux 
> servers (all inside the corporate firewall) at work, and worked with 
> shell scripts that used sudo, but that's it.

I'm surprised that RH didn't come with sudo. I was using it on Solaris
long before Linux was even a thing.

> And, as far as security goes, all you need to do is disable Telnet
> and 
> configure ssh to disallow direct root login.

Of course, SOP. I also use fail2ban so in fact the baddies don't even
get as far as the SSH login.

> That way, even if somebody 
> manages to crack your password and get shell access via ssh, they
> can't 
> use sudo to do any major damage.  (I'm never in wheel, and my
> username 
> isn't in /etc/sudoers, just to be safe.)  Paranoid?  Not really,
> it's 
> just that I see no reason to have sudo set up if I'm not using it.

My password is long, but I do find sudo useful. To each his own.

poc