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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