[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/21/2011 02:54 PM, Phil Meyer wrote:
> First of all, after nearly 30 years of UNIX and then Linux
> administration, I would not hire you into my group with a belief such as
> that.

I should have been more clear.  I was thinking in terms of your own 
computer, or one that you own.  Two friends of mine have accounts on 
this machine and ssh access, so they can do such interesting things as 
ping/traceroute through different backbone segments to help with 
testing.  Neither one has (or has asked for) sudo access, nor needs it. 
  The only reason they might is the fact that sometimes traceroute 
doesn't get responses from each router unless you use "traceroute -I" 
and that normally needs elevated privileges.  After careful thought and 
deciding that I couldn't see a downside to it, I used chmod to set the 
suid bit on the binary.

I'd like to assure you, btw, that if I were working as a Linux sysadmin, 
I'd follow whatever procedures were in place, and if that includes using 
sudo instead of su, I'd have no problems with it because that'd simply 
be doing things the way I was being paid to do them.