[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 18:48:11 UTC 2011
On 3/21/11, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> On 03/21/2011 11:28 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
>> Either way, I prefer to give users sudo as it is restrictive and I
>> know what they can/cannot do and how much damge I'll have to fix when
>> they break things.
>
> My point is, if it's your box and you're the only user, you know the
> root password and there's no excuse for using sudo.
If it's yours, enjoy. If it is not, as it is where I work, then I'm
stuck with sudo.
> Using sudo under those circumstances is, IMAO one of the hallmarks of the
> luser. Please note that I'm a long-term member of the Scary Devil Monastery,
> and this attitude is typical of a monk. If you don't know what that last
> sentence meant, be glad.
I do and I'm not upset that you are a Monk. I think I've graduated to
Priest with all of the studying in the 'Bible of Scariness and How
Users can Muck Up Their Systems' even if it is Linux/UNIX.
You are so correct. Why use sudo if it is your system? You
shouldn't. I used su - until I had root taken away from me (and I
gave it up because that team grew and I did not like the stop by my
work area asking "What are you up to?" twice a day.) Giving users
only that which they need is key to the principle of Least Privilege
as well (if you know what I'm talking about, you may be more than a
Monk. :) )
Anyway, we should move this to the other thread and carry on. Leave
this to the Gnome3/KDE4/Windows7/Mac Aqua discussion.
James McKenzie
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