sudo disappears after latest update

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Wed Feb 10 16:48:41 UTC 2016


On 02/10/2016 04:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Surely this takes substantially more time than sudo?
> Presumably you have to give the argument in quotes,
> and then give the password?
>

So?  Time is not everything, and being retired, I have all that I need.

> 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?

If the hacker's gotten through my firewall and installed a key logger, 
it's already too late.


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