[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/21/2011 11:48 AM, James McKenzie wrote:
> If it's yours, enjoy.  If it is not, as it is where I work, then I'm
> stuck with sudo.

That's why I was so specific.  When I first started doing tech support 
for an ISP, back in '96, we had telnet access to one server to make 
various database queries for callers.  Instead of giving us direct 
access to the databases, we had shell scripts that used sudo.  I could 
always tell when they'd rebooted the server because sudo would give me 
that standard lecture.  IMO, that's what sudo was designed for, giving 
users limited access to specific commands that they need to do their 
job.  Using it on your home box for root access is, IMAO, a bad habit 
that I'm not going to eliminate, although I can, and do object to people 
spreading it.