[LUNI] Remembering which shell (not a good explaination)

[Keith T. Garner]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:55:24, SqrFolkDnc at aol.com said:
>    I understand that sudu is good for letting 'general user #1' do things
>    as  'general  user  #2',  or  maybe  even  as  'dba #1', but if I am a
>    sysadmin, and regularly needing root anyway, what is the big advantage
>    of  learning  and  always  having  to decide between two ways of doing
>    something, sometimes sudu and sometimes su?

sudo allows you to do stuff as root as well, not just other users.
Also, the big advantage: audit trail in syslog.  You can set up sudo
to log everything you do via it to the syslog.  This is great when you
go "what did I screw up the other day?"  Also, having to type sudo
makes me think about what I'm doing to make sure that what I'm gonna
run as root will run as root.

But the audit trail is key for me, especially in a multi-admin
environment.

Keith

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   Keith T. Garner                                        kgarner at kgarner.com
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