12 Jul
2005
12 Jul
'05
1:19 a.m.
Alan Pope alan.pope@gmail.com wrote:
Or install the sudo package and use that to run commands with root privs. Once installed you'll be able to things like..
I'm not a big fan of letting sudo run all commands. I prefer to keep it to a few selected commands and users who aren't allowed to run all commands. If you let a user run make, it's reading Makefile in your current directory, which can call all commands.
I'm not sure why I have that preference for sudo, but I do. Is it irrational?
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