On Sunday 28 August 2005 18:06, Ian wrote: > I know it provides a fake root environment for work, but why would you want > that?
You have misunderstood sudo, the root environment is real, not fake. Sudo allows certain users to issue root commands without having to know the root password (they need to be authorised in /etc/sudoers and they need to provide their own password). /etc/sudoers also controls which commands they can issue (or all). In addition everything done using sudo gets logged, so you can see who did what and when. If you have multiple people doing system administration and they have to become root to do it (i.e. either log on as root or use su) then you do not know who did a particular action as root did them all, with sudo you know who the culprit is. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
