sudo disappears after latest update
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Feb 10 12:53:57 UTC 2016
Joe Zeff wrote:
> I, OTOH, find su -c quite satisfactory, TYVM.
Surely this takes substantially more time than sudo?
Presumably you have to give the argument in quotes,
and then give the password?
And doesn't it give an alternative way for the hacker
to get the superuser password, eg by key-logging?
So is it even safer in the end?
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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
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