David Goodenough wrote: >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 > > > It's also easier to do root-type things while in X without having to log into X as root or muck about with the Xauthority files.
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